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From: Benoit Fouet <benoit.fouet@purplelabs.com>
Subject: Re: threads and kernel
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:50:49 +0200
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To: Steve Graegert <graegerts@gmail.com>
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Hi,

Steve Graegert wrote:
> As a side note: you can safely use dlopen()  to load shared libraries,
> whether or not they depend on libpthread.so, as long as the main
> program was initially threaded.  The other way round is dangerous and
> mostly not allowed.
>
>   

could you please elaborate a bit on that ? i cannot see why this is
dangerous.

Thanks,

Ben