Bug#205234: 2.3.2-7 + pthread + vsyslog()

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 00:54, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I think the real answer has to be "don't do that".  Every use of this
> idiom breaks with dlopen.  This is the worst offender but I'm betting
> there are others.  __pthread_setspecific seems to be one.

Mmm.  I'm not sure that outlawing the use of libpthread (or any library
linked with pthreads, which also means stuff like librt) in any object
that might potentially be dlopen()d is a tenable position.

I wonder why this problem has only started happening recently, though.

> Ask libc-alpha?

Yeah, probably best.

p.