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



On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:27:36PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> rJoerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > You are mixing up two unrelated items. The thread private area and the
> > thread ID are not the same thing. Your "fix" only affects the former,
> > not the latter.
> 
> Right, I was not sure what you were talking about. You mean struct lwp's
> l_lid, right? If this is the case, then shall I understand you worry
> about an application that plays with swapcontext() around pthreads,
> retreive its kernel l_lid, and get confused because it changed? Or did I
> miss something else?

Or libpthread or rtld for the same kind of issue.

Joerg


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