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Re: [PATCH] PowerPC - Add a faster way to get the thread id
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:
> There is nothing powerpc-specific about that information, so it would never
> be appropriate to add a powerpc-specific interface for it. If you want to
> make the case for adding a public interface to access this Linux-specific
> information, make that case (I doubt we'll be convinced).
The request for such an interface is bug 6399 - and 14300 for conversion
of a pthread_t to a TID. If we conclude that we don't want such
interfaces then those bugs should be closed.
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Joseph S. Myers
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