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… or are loaded via RTLD_NODELETE (for various reasons). The effect of that: the ELF destructors they provide will never be called, and what's worse, the destructors of any depending lib will never be called either, ever).

What's worse: it's not clear which thread invokes the constructors/destructors even. It might be the main thread, or some other thread, because dlopen() is used from it, directly or indirectly. And other code might run in parallel with your constructor/destructor hence.