dlfcn: Failures after dlmopen should not terminate process [BZ #15271]
Commit 9e78f6f6 ("Implement _dl_catch_error, _dl_signal_error in libc.so [BZ #16628]") has the side effect that distinct namespaces, as created by dlmopen, now have separate implementations of the rtld exception mechanism. This means that the call to _dl_catch_error from libdl in a secondary namespace does not actually install an exception handler because the thread-local variable catch_hook in the libc.so copy in the secondary namespace is distinct from that of the base namepace. As a result, a dlsym/dlopen/... failure in a secondary namespace terminates the process with a dynamic linker error because it looks to the exception handler mechanism as if no handler has been installed. Backport notes: GLRO (dl_catch_error) is replaced with _dl_catch_error_ptr to preserve _rtld_global_ro layout. (cherry picked from commit b2964eb1d9a6b8ab1250e8a881cf406182da5875)
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