On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 04:19:41PM +0000, Ben Maurer wrote: > Hey, > > > So far the restrictions I see for libraries using this symbol are: > > - They should never be unloaded, > > - They should never be loaded with dlopen RTLD_LOCAL flag. > > We talked a bit about this off-list but I wanted to state publicly > that I think this model works well for our use case. Specifically, > > (1) It reduces complexity by focusing on the common case -- long term > we expect glibc to manage the process of using this feature and > registering/deregistering threads for rseq. Unloading isn't a > challenge in these situations, so why add the complexity for it?
You never install a new version of glibc on a running system, and expect everything to keep running successfully? Breaking that would not be good... thanks, greg k-h
