Re: [uml-devel] SKAS3 for 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Nix
On 8 Dec 2007, Karol Swietlicki outgrape: > I can't wait to test this. WORKSFORME, nice and fast again just in time for weeks of unattended operation as I head out for a nice long Newtonmass break. :) (so it had better not crash! ;} ) -- `The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Ra

Re: [uml-devel] should there be os_clone() analogous to os_getpid() ?

2007-12-09 Thread John Reiser
Jeff Dike wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:24:57PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: >>I see no os_clone(), yet the glibc clone() does the same caching of pid in >>ThreadLocalStorage [TLS], and the TLS still may be shared. If nobody reads >>glibc's shared TLS slot for PID then an actual bug will be av

Re: [uml-devel] should there be os_clone() analogous to os_getpid() ?

2007-12-09 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:24:57PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: >In source file arch/um/os-Linux/process.c there is a warning: >- >/* Don't use the glibc version, which caches the result in TLS. It misses some > * syscalls, and also breaks with clone(), which does not unshare the TLS. > */ > >int