Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:35:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Interesting scheduling times |
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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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