Subject: Re: lib/26900: pthread should save/restore %fs resgister on i386
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/28/2004 11:16:57
Hi,

is there any reason why the proposed change should not be applied?
If it's sane, we should make sure 2.0 ships with the fix.

Jaromir

>Number:         26900
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       pthread should save/restore %fs resgister on i386
>Description:
With the current pthread implementation, a thread does not keep
the value of %fs register.  This behavior causes a serious
problem on Wine or PEACE because %fs register is used for
associating a thread and thread-dependent information in Windows.

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