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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:27:06 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
Subject:   Re: weak implementation of threads has problems - kse fix attached
Message-ID:  <20040608072706.GA82243@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040608044844.GA89198@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1086663455.1258.79.camel@server.mcneil.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10406080028070.11500-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20040608044844.GA89198@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:48:45PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 08), Daniel Eischen said:
> > No, I don't want to litter all our thread libraries with strong
> > references. As I've said before, build your shared libraries
> > correctly so they don't bring in the threads library.
>=20
> A good addition to bsd.port.mk, right next to the "possible network
> server" etc checks, might be to run ldd on all installed shared
> libraries and print a warning if any threads libraries show up.  There
> are a huge number of ports that install shlibs linked to libpthreads.

Some of these are probably correct, in that the library started using
libpthreads internally and there are a large number of clients that
would otherwise need to be changed to link to that library.

Kris

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