Re: [RFC] pre-c89 in libltdl

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 20, 2004, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is what I was unsure about, do you have a reference for this?  I
> only found:

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/dlopen.html

> Which doesn't mention threads at all.

According to some other bit in the POSIX spec, functions that don't
mention the fact that they may not be reentrant must be.

> If POSIX dlopen are indeed thread safe, I think I will use them
> directly, instead of libltdl

Problem is that many implementations aren't POSIX-compliant in the
regard of reentrancy.  If you feel comfortable doing that, go for it,
I guess.

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