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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2025 23:32:38 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 2025, Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 06:54:34 PM EDT, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > > The recent issue with pthread_atfork handlers reminded me of a scenario
> > > that I know glibc handles, but it seems that Cygwin does not.  Test case:
> >
> > <... code that loads a shared lib, registers some functions in shared lib with pthread_atfork(), unloads the shared lib, and crashes on fork...>
> >
> > Calling functions in an unloaded library should result in undefined behavior.
> >
> > However, further investigation reveals that the Linux pthread_atfork() registered functions are not being called and POSIX does not proved a mechanism for un-registering these functions.   Note: pthread_atfork() is not bumping the ref count on the shared lib--those functions are definitely unavailable after the dlclose()
> >
> > In the Cygwin version, calling the functions in the unloaded library when the fork happens causes the crash.
> >
> > This seems to be a bug with fork(), if it is a bug at all.
>
> I did a quick search, and found a write-up of *my* bug report :D
>
> https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/12/14/how-we-addressed-unforeseen-use-case-pthreadatfork
>
> "Now, dlclose()'ing a module means that any fork handlers registered by it
> should not be executed after the dlclose and should therefore implicitly
> be deregistered."

It seems glibc takes care of this implicit deregistration in
__cxa_finalize, after calling __cxa_atexit functions, it unregisters any
at_quick_exit or pthread_atfork callbacks from the DSO being unloaded.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=stdlib/cxa_finalize.c;h=2bb35602edc6bf842e5d2c93ad03454d7b57ee65;hb=HEAD

It doesn't look like newlib deals with either at_quick_exit or
pthread_atfork handlers in its __cxa_finalize implementation.

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