LDT initialization after fork() for LinuxThreads?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Jun 28 16:22:00 GMT 2001


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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