Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:55:36 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fix) |
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:36:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Maybe your libc is different on the different machines? Normal programs > shouldn't use segments at all, so I really do not see how this patch could > matter in the least, even if it was completely and utterly buggy (which is > not obvious at first glance). > > I wonder why you seem to have an LDT at all..
glibc 2.2 linuxthreads sets up an LDT to use %gs as thread local data base pointer.
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