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Re: Bug with dlopen() and fork()


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:57:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 20 14:16, Jaime Fabregas Fernandez wrote:
>> Hello Corinna,
>> 
>> As you've checked, this behaviour doesn't appear with dll's created by
>> gcc, but it does with Visual Studio C++.
>> That minimal example compiled with VS will result in the freeze of the
>> child process.
>> 
>> ================ testlib.h ======================
>> #ifdef TESTLIB_EXPORTS
>> #define TEST_API extern "C" __declspec(dllexport)
>> #else
>> #define TEST_API extern "C" __declspec(dllimport)
>> #endif
>> 
>> TEST_API  int  mylib_open (const char *foo);
>> =============================================
>> 
>> =============== testlib.cpp ======================
>> #include "stdafx.h"
>> #include "testLib.h"
>> 
>>   int
>>   mylib_open (const char *foo)
>>   {
>>     return 1;
>>   }
>> ==============================================
>> 
>> I've tested several compiler and linker options with same result.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>
>Using MS DLLs across fork in this way is unsupported.  If you get it
>working, you're just lucky.

Too bad.  We >just< missed the Thursday window.

cgf

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