loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

[Kostik Belousov]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:09:00AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:55:01AM -0400, Barry Andrews wrote:
> > Yes, the exe is tclsh. I understand that linking tclsh with libpthread is
> > what would work. However this is very impractical. A user of my library
> > shouldn't have to rebuild their tclsh to match my library specs. Another
> > option would be to ship tclsh with my lib, but that also is a little weird.
> > It seems like the only somewhat practical option I have is to use
> > LD_PRELOAD, which is also weird but better than nothing.
> 
> This really isn't a "FreeBSD problem", as the same sort of issue plagues
> other operating systems.  When it comes to threading, you want
> *everything* threaded as much as possible -- mix-matching usually does
> not work.  The only OS I have seen where that kind of environment works
> reliably is Solaris.  I still feel threading is "too new" of a

Yeah, they merged libpthread and libc some time ago, AFAIR :).
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