Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:50:37 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 |
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Jeff Dike wrote:
> My preferred solution would be for libc to ask the kernel where the > vsyscall area is. That's reasonably clean and virtualizable. Andrea > doesn't like it because it adds a few instructions to the vsyscall > address calculation.
Sounds like the best solution indeed, especially when keeping in mind the strange people who want to run with a different user:kernel split or statically linked binaries at fun addresses so they've got more space for their fortran arrays ;)
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