Re: Interesting scheduling times

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:35:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

[snip]
> Drepper is simply wrong about the FPU behavior. The kernel must clear
> the FPU state anyway to prevent information leaks. (basic C2 security)
> The kernel must not break the ABI that all existing Linux executables
> expect. Duh. Considering all the effort put into fork+exit latency,
> it is horrid to see it all wasted by glibc bloat.

Then make a patch already, you could remove his FPU stupidity with a one
or two line diff.

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