Re: [RFC][PATCH] _UC_TLSBASE for all ports

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:36:17PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Summary of the previous episode: NetBSD's swapcontext restores the
> thread_self pointer. When using swapcontext() on a context obtained 
> from getcontext() in another thread, this makes two threads with the
> same pthread_self, leading to chaos

I maintain that trying to move contexts between threads is an inherently
bad idea and that it is a very inefficient interface for implementing
coroutines. I object to this change for the sake of misdesigned
software.

Joerg