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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 17:13:52 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rfork'd threads, signals, and LDTs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105071657210.84927-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010505143128.15821A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Sat, 5 May 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel Eischen writes:
> >  > 
> >  > OK, thanks.  Here's my guess at what should be changed for the Linux
> >  > emulator.  If this looks correct, I'll commit it.
> >  > 
> >  > Hmm, I wonder how linuxthreads works under FreeBSD without this
> >  > change...
> > 
> > This breaks at least one version of the IBM JDK that I have
> > laying around..  
> > 
> > If anything, we may have two errors (at least partially) canceling
> > each other out. I think it needs more work/thought prior to
> > committing.
>
> We're still OK with the change to FreeBSDs native signal trampoline
> though, right?  I'll hold off on the Linux emulator changes until
> we can figure out what the problem is.

I was confused about what Linux does.  Now I think it only copies %fs
to the signal context struct.  It loads %fs with USER_DS for the signal
handler.  It passes the previous (process) value of %gs to the signal
handler.  (Its early mistake of of switching %fs on every entry to the
kernel was moved to FreeBSD.)

Bruce


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