LDT use in LinuxThreads

[Ulrich Drepper]

tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> > That's too much of an overhead.  The use of the LDT is there to speed
> > things up.
> 
> This is just too likely to break distributions.  We should avoid this
> kind of thing.  Is at all possible to check a single global variable?

What are you talking about?  This will not break anything since there
is a test for the kernel version at the beginning of the program
execution.

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