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

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:

> I concur.  A thread's stack is its identity and one can't swap stacks
> without swapping its sense of self.  (granted thread local storage
> helps but that isn't universally available).

This is not about the stack, this is about pthread_self() which can be
changed by swapcontext(), making duplicate threads with the same
pthread_self() and breaking mapping between userland and kernel threads.

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