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Use symbol versioning #640

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NWilson opened this issue Dec 20, 2024 · 0 comments
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Use symbol versioning #640

NWilson opened this issue Dec 20, 2024 · 0 comments
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NWilson commented Dec 20, 2024

It is not possible to load two copies of PCRE2 into the same process address space, because we don't have versioned symbols. This would be an issue if an application links to one .so file with PCRE2, but then loads a component (a plugin perhaps) which is linked to a different .so containing PCRE2. The dynamic linker would not be able to resolve the symbols correctly to the two independent instances of the library.

We haven't had any user reports of issues, so I feel it's not urgent.

Raised in Debian bug 902060.

@NWilson NWilson added this to the 10.46 milestone Jan 8, 2025
@NWilson NWilson added the enhancement New feature or request label Jan 8, 2025
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