[OE-core] pthreads should rdepend on libgcc

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Thu Nov 14 11:22:17 UTC 2019


On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:36:56PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>...
> however, there could be another problem, where libgcc_s is lazily
> loaded during pthread_exit and
> application is not using root user which many daemons do where they
> use less privileged user to run
> and it would fail in the exact same manner. I also see few other uses
> of libgcc_s.so being dlopened in
> nptl unwind code and libbacktrace in glibc.
>...

Why would this be a problem?

dlopen() does not require root privileges.

cu
Adrian

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