fork() after pthread_mutex_init()

[Phil Mayers]

On 05/13/2013 08:03 PM, Edgar Fuß wrote:

> registered a pthread_atfork handler, which intended to call
> ldap_drop_conenction() from libldap, but, because of PLT
> load-time-linking, in fact ended up calling ldap_drop_connection()
> from libldap_r. Boom (inside fork()).

Oh yuck...

NSS really is a disaster - "dynload in arbitrary linked-libraries every 
time I lookup a uid->user mapping, why sure!".

You might find that running nscd helps, as it'll confine nss_ldap to the 
nscd process.