Re: patch for x86 treatment of fs and gs in signal handlers

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
28 Aug 1998 07:54:35 -0700


Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> If an LDT entry is going to be used by newer glibc programs that only
> have one thread, for uniform access to thread local data (errno), it
> makes sense to reserve space for a minimal LDT directly in struct mm.

It is not planned to use the LDT in non-threaded programs. It could
be but I'm not sure it's wise.

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