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

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:56:57 +0200

> > 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.

Well, you could still use the NULL selector for non-threaded programs,
still needing no LDT.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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