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Re: LDT initialization after fork() for LinuxThreads?
- To: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Subject: Re: LDT initialization after fork() for LinuxThreads?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 28 Jun 2001 16:19:30 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200106271446.QAA61787@max.zk-i.med.uni-muenchen.de>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram.Gloger@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, or I just don't understand the
> LDT stuff sufficiently.
>
> But, my tests indicate that modified LDT entries aren't inherited
> across fork().
But they should. And if I remember correctly, this used to be the
case. Don't know which kernel version you are using and haven't
tested it here.
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