SF Bay area hackfest

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Mar 24 23:48:27 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:22:22AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> We've said this at other times, but TLS support is already
> partially designed in to libpthread (for all archs).  We
> can (and will) implement it for them regardless of whether
> the library functions perfectly for those platforms.
> 
> Both sparc64 and alpha seem to work OK when libpthread is
> built in 1:1 mode, so I suspect the real problem is resuming
> the thread contexts in userland and/or passing out the
> context in the expected format from the kernel.

Can it be built that way by default on sparc, since libthr doesn't
work very well?  I'd like to test this for things like mozilla that
cause libthr to crash at startup, except my sparc machine remains
unbootable because of broken syscons.

Kris
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