Glibc - Deadlock in atfork handler which calls dlclose in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Issue
- Programs get stuck in a deadlock during glibc calls and are failing to operate.
- If a thread calls
pthread_atfork
from anatfork
handler, it is creating a deadlock.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- glibc-2.28-101.el8
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