Load multiple copies of a shared library

Question

I am running Linux, and I would like to be able to make parallel function calls into a shared library (.so) which is unfortunately not threadsafe (I am guessing it has globa

Answer 1

You can load multiple independent copies of the library like this:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include 
...
void *handle = dlmopen(LM_ID_NEWLM, "/path/to/library.so", RTLD_NOW);

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