On 2016-07-05, Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> wrote: Philip covered the rest in the other thread, but this remains:
> Why does not the OS load the dependency (libpthread and C) > automatically, how do I make it do that, and on this topic, to your > perception is there anything I not understood? libc had weak functions which needed to be overridden from libpthread; if pthread was dlopen()ed without being dynamically linked to a binary, it was too late to do this. There have been various iterations; the -znodlopen linking was still relatively recent, before that there wasn't anything preventing you from dlopen(somelib_needing_pthread) but because it didn't override the libc functions, you would run into nasty bugs and broken behaviour.
