From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 15:56:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2DB16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:56:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F70643D48 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:56:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.250]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i57FujQu009565; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i57FujYx066997; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i57FujWi066996; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:56:45 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Doug Rabson Message-ID: <20040607155645.GB66937@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <40C37E1C.4000402@freebsd.org> <20040606204817.GB96607@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <200406071014.21707.dfr@nlsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406071014.21707.dfr@nlsystems.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:56:48 -0000 On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:14:21AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sunday 06 June 2004 21:48, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:27:08PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > >Doug Rabson also has basic TLS support working in perforce. > > > > > > What platforms? My understanding was that new binutils and gcc was > > > needed for sparc64 at a minimum. > > > > Yes. It's i386 only and not even close to being complete. In fact, > > there has been discussions that the thread pointer on i386 needs to > > change. Whether that's the case or not, it's likely that TLS will > > complicate matters way too much to for it to ever work in 5.3. > > Actually its a bit better than that. It works for most use cases right > now on i386 but would get confused on dlclose. I'll fix that before I > move it into current. Does it work on static bound executables? -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net