Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-ust 6/8] Manually dlopen() liblttng-ust.so to prevent unloading

- On Feb 8, 2018, at 3:24 PM, Francis Deslauriers francis.deslauri...@efficios.com wrote: > 2018-02-07 15:59 GMT-05:00 Mathieu Desnoyers : >> - On Feb 2, 2018, at 2:48 PM, Francis Deslauriers >> francis.deslauri...@efficios.com wrote: >> >>> dlopen()

Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-ust 6/8] Manually dlopen() liblttng-ust.so to prevent unloading

2018-02-07 15:59 GMT-05:00 Mathieu Desnoyers : > - On Feb 2, 2018, at 2:48 PM, Francis Deslauriers > francis.deslauri...@efficios.com wrote: > >> dlopen() increments the refcount of the library thus preventing the >> refcount to reach zero in the case of

Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-ust 6/8] Manually dlopen() liblttng-ust.so to prevent unloading

- On Feb 2, 2018, at 2:48 PM, Francis Deslauriers francis.deslauri...@efficios.com wrote: > dlopen() increments the refcount of the library thus preventing the > refcount to reach zero in the case of dlclose; The changelog and comment do not explain _why_ this is needed. The scenario is:

[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-ust 6/8] Manually dlopen() liblttng-ust.so to prevent unloading

dlopen() increments the refcount of the library thus preventing the refcount to reach zero in the case of dlclose; Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers --- configure.ac | 1 + liblttng-ust/Makefile.am | 2 ++ liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-comm.c