From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 07:45:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347A937B401; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F70843FB1; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:45:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfk7j.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.208.243] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19Hlt3-0007E4-00; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:45:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3EC8EDB3.BD714FFA@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:44:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: re@FreeBSD.org References: <200305171300.h4HD0FH6042581@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a417007357f0024710ba0f8818116d20352601a10902912494350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:45:15 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > |-------------------+-------------+---------------+----------------------| > | | | | Update the run-time | > | rtld-elf | -- | Alexander | link editor (rtld) | > | thread-safety | | Kabaev | thread-safe with | > | | | | libpthread. | > |-------------------+-------------+---------------+----------------------| According to chapter 12 of the "Go Solo 2" book, this is a bogus thing to do. Callers are required to take a critical section over the calls to the dl* functions because the dlerror() function uses a static buffer that can be overwritten in a multi-threaded environment. -- Terry