Re: geting linux TLS working

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:15:40AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> | Also, -5 will have a hack there for COMPAT_SA, and I'm pretty sure that
> | makes it unworkable with this change.
> 
> This is about the hard-coding of the segment descriptors in
> the context setting code in libpthread in 3.x? The library should
> be fixed, not the kernel.

I agree. Putting random descriptor numbers into ucontext_t can't be expected
to work long term. Where is the offending code in 3.x?

Andrew