Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to give it a shot (implementing pthreads support for the Hurd > I mean). It seems that on the i386, it is possible to use the LDT to > store some thread-specific data. Mach supports a per-thread LDT and > even has an RPC interface to manipulate it. I have to admit that I > stole this idea from Ulrich (there is a file in the linuxthreads > add-on that contains some code, but it isn't actually used). > Nevertheless, I'll try to make things as machine/OS independent as > possible.
I'm a little agin using the LDT for this. I'd rather stick to generic Mach functionality. I think the thread-specific data should be done off the SP the way it is now. The user-specified pthread_data stuff should probably be a data structure hanging off a single slot in the Hurd thread data block. Thomas
