Work around an assert failure in the dynamic linker's default thread

locking functions.  If an application loads a shared object with
dlopen() and the shared object has an init function which requires
lazy binding, then _rtld_bind is called when the thread is already
inside the dynamic linker.  This leads to a recursive acquisition
of the lock, which I was not expecting -- hence the assert failure.

This work-around makes the default locking functions handle recursive
locking.  It is NOT the correct fix -- that should be implemented
at the generic locking level rather than in the default locking
functions.  I will implement the correct fix in a future commit.

Since the dllockinit() interface will likely need to change, warn
about that in both the man page and the header file.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/dlfcn.h b/include/dlfcn.h
index 09edf2d..16cc417 100644
--- a/include/dlfcn.h
+++ b/include/dlfcn.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ __BEGIN_DECLS
 int dladdr __P((const void *, Dl_info *));
 int dlclose __P((void *));
 const char *dlerror __P((void));
+/* XXX dllockinit() interface is likely to change. */
 void dllockinit __P((void *_context,
 		     void *(*_lock_create)(void *_context),
 		     void (*_rlock_acquire)(void *_lock),