branch master updated: libtool: Some outdated documentation warnings removed

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     new 498bad82 libtool: Some outdated documentation warnings removed
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commit 498bad82f6a656ddc52b376cdab8c471b639d500
Author: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 15 17:53:22 2024 +0200

    libtool: Some outdated documentation warnings removed
    
    Documentation for dlopen(3) states that it is thread safe, and it is
    defined this way by POSIX.
    
    * doc/libtool.texi: Remove old dlopen multi-threaded support warnings.
---
 doc/libtool.texi | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi
index b412d178..c3253e04 100644
--- a/doc/libtool.texi
+++ b/doc/libtool.texi
@@ -3918,14 +3918,9 @@ your application to use this version of libltdl.
 @noindent
 Note that libltdl is not well tested in a multithreaded environment,
 though the intention is that it should work (@pxref{Thread Safety
-in libltdl, , Using libltdl in a multi threaded environment}).  It was
-reported that GNU/Linux's glibc 2.0's @code{dlopen} with
-@samp{RTLD_LAZY} (that libltdl uses by default) is not thread-safe,
-but this problem is supposed to be fixed in glibc 2.1.  On the other
-hand, @samp{RTLD_NOW} was reported to introduce problems in
-multi-threaded applications on FreeBSD@.  Working around these problems
-is left as an exercise for the reader; contributions are certainly
-welcome.
+in libltdl, , Using libltdl in a multi threaded environment}). If there are
+any issues, working around them is left as an exercise for the reader;
+contributions are certainly welcome.
 
 @noindent
 The following macros are defined by including @file{ltdl.h}: