Re: libselinux's __attribute__((constructor)) versus nVidia libGL.so

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:47:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> This bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706836

FWIW, you can define "priority" values on the constructor attributes, to
sort out ordering between libraries, but this sucks as a general purpose
solution as it requires co-ordination of priorities between different a
projects. eg you might fix the selinux vs nvidia problem now, but it can
recur with any other library using constructors in the future. IMHO it
would be better to use pthread_once to do any one time initialization
of library code

Daniel
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