On 08/28/2013 06:06 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:47:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: >> This bug: >> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706836 > > FWIW, you can define "priority" values on the constructor attributes, to > sort out ordering between libraries, but this sucks as a general purpose > solution as it requires co-ordination of priorities between different a > projects. eg you might fix the selinux vs nvidia problem now, but it can > recur with any other library using constructors in the future. IMHO it > would be better to use pthread_once to do any one time initialization > of library code I think we considered switching that constructor over to using pthread_once (as we already do for many other forms of initialization via the selinux_once macro), but it would require inserting such calls into many/most of the libselinux functions prior to any use of selinux_mnt or selinux_page_size. Certainly doable (and willing to accept such a patch), but I guess the question is whether it is worth it or if nvidia should just fix their library. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
