Crash in unloading in HP-UX while calling dlclose()

[Alexey Melnikov]

Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>Biswatosh wrote:
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>>Hi Alexei,
>>
>>One of my folks is getting a crash in dlclose() on
>>HP-UX.
>>When I see the code for dlopen() and dlclose()
>>functions in dlopen.c for HP-UX, I get the following
>>doubts.
>>
>>My doubts are:
>>
>>1) In function dlopen(), why can't we simply call
>>shl_load() and return?
>>Why we are defining a shl_t *hp ? And, what we are
>>trying to do by typecasting
>>hp to dll_handle and returning that? dll_handle is of
>>type shl_t whereas hp is of type
>>shl_t*(which is therefore a double pointer).
>>
>>2)The reporter of the crash smells problem in the line
>>return shl_unload(h) in dlclose().
>>He suggests, it should be rather shl_unload(hp).What
>>do you guys think?  But anyway, I am not getting why
>>in dlclose(), simply calling shl_unload(h) won't do.
>>Any comments?     
>>
>Looking at the code and HP-UX documentation it seems that you are right 
>in both cases.
>Can you see if the attached patch works for you?
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>
I've committed the patch.