Re: [RFC] pre-c89 in libltdl

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 1 Apr 2004, at 00:41, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
> > On 31 Mar 2004, at 17:47, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > > Libltdl itself is not thread safe.
> >
> > That's a bug!  Do you have any test cases? (I have never programmed
> > with threads, so it is entirely possible that the mutex code I added
> > is incredibly naive).
>
> Actually, libltdl is documented as being thread unsafe.  It offers a
> way to use user-supplied locking functions so it could become thread
> safe.  Unfortunately, the definitions for these user-supplied locking
> functions don't match what is available from POSIX threads (the
> locking must be re-entrant on a per-thread level) so it is not as
> easily used as it could be.

I see :-(

If you were to write a threaddemo typical of how a threaded client might
use libltdl, I would be happy to fix libltdl to work with it (after the
next release).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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