glibc make check fails...

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Roland McGrath wrote:

> However, this does not explain AJ's crash because he has a build with no
> __NR_set_thread_area.  It must be the modify_ldt call failing, for which we
> have no explanation and AFAIK noone else has seen it.

If this happens the system is in deep trouble anyway.


> In principle the modify_ldt call can fail too, and it would be preferable
> to crash in abort as intended rather than crash in the errno access.
> Also I would be happier not having the duplication between tls.h and useldt.h.

The new thread code has all this cleaned up.  It's just not worth it to
worry about the old code too much.

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