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

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
26 Aug 1998 07:34:24 -0700


Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> WINE however restores the %fs in signalhandlers from the passed struct
> sigcontext which works (including additional checks for signals from 16bit
> code) rather good.

But this is not possible in our case since all user code is effected.
Whenever somebody will write an signal handler in an multithreaded
program s/he'll has to do this magic. How do you explain this to
everybody?

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