mozilla/rust — pull request #9713 by sfackler (2013-10-04 05:43:37+00:00)
Title: Hackily fix thread safety issues in dynamic_lib

The root issue is that dlerror isn't reentrant or even thread safe.

The solution implemented here is to make a yielding spin lock over an
AtomicFlag. This is pretty hacky, but the best we can do at this point.
As far as I can tell, it isn't possible to create a global mutex without
having to initialize it in a single threaded context.

The Windows code isn't affected since errno is thread-local on Windows
and it's running in an atomically block to ensure there isn't a green
thread context switch.

Closes #9137