Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:09:09 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision |
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Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:33:56PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >> Roland McGrath wrote: >>> We could also put the uname info (modulo nodename) into the vDSO. >> Or even better: real topology information. > > AND rather than OR would be even better. So glibc could find kernel > version, etc. and topology in the vDSO cheaply.
Wouldn't it make more sense for this to be in ELF tags, rather than the vdso? Another alternative, I guess, would be to put a pointer in the ELF tags, which may point into the vdso.
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