From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 05:58:14 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 89AFD16A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:58:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.otel.net (gw3.OTEL.net [212.36.8.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CAA43D1D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tbyte@OTEL.net) Received: from dragon.otel.net ([212.36.8.135] helo=OTEL.net) by mail.otel.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AvzYC-000Cxx-Kg; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:58:12 +0200 Message-ID: <403CA9F6.4010201@OTEL.net> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:58:14 +0200 From: Iasen Kostov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040224 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: TLS, Thread Local Storage.. 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: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:58:14 -0000 Does this have something in common with 243 UNIMPL linux_set_thread_area 244 UNIMPL linux_get_thread_area from src/sys/i386/linux/syscalls.master ? Julian Elischer wrote: >Now that the real threading libraries are in more common usage we need >to tackle TLS. The TLS spec is NOT part of posix, but people are >starting to write software that depends on it (e.g. nvidia) >and that is the real definition of our requirements. > >The definative doc is at: >http://people.redhat.com/drepper/tls.pdf > >We can handle the kernel side pretty much already >(We've had our eye on this for a while) >but it's the tools, linker etc that are going to be the problems.. >The library parts are "understood". > >This is basically a call to find out "who is interested?" > >Some people have already indicated some interest but don't let that stop >them from piping up again now.. >(people often are interested in something but time constraints >etc. change and...) > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >