On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Russ Allbery wrote:

pthreads-aware can be harmful in pam modules.

Details? Using PAM modules built with the non-pthread versions of the AFS libraries causes Debian sarge sshd to segfault.

Well, I guess it boils down to "do you care that you effectively leak a thread to use rx". You can avoid leaking the thread (by shutting down rx), but it gets messier when the pam caller is long-running and calls pam a lot (like an authentication daemon)




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