Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: eischen@vigrid.com Subject: Re: Rfork'd threads, signals, and LDTs Message-ID: <200105071815.f47IFBs64511@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010507130624.20611A@pcnet1.pcnet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010507130624.20611A@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010507130624.20611A@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote: > > I was looking at our linuxthreads port and noticed some %gs > fiddling. If linuxthreads wants to allow POSIX semantics for > specifying thread stack allocation, they'll have to stop relying > on stack alignments for TSD. Agreed. It appears that they use %gs if it is determined (at glibc build time) that the target Linux kernel is new enough (2.3.99) to support it. The Red Hat 7.0 kernel is 2.2.16. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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