TLS, Thread Local Storage..

[Iasen Kostov]

Does this have something in common with

243     UNIMPL  linux_set_thread_area
244     UNIMPL  linux_get_thread_area

from src/sys/i386/linux/syscalls.master  ?

Julian Elischer wrote:

>Now that the real threading libraries are in more common usage we need
>to tackle TLS. The TLS spec is NOT part of posix, but people are
>starting to write software that depends on it (e.g. nvidia)
>and that is the real definition of our requirements.
>
>The definative doc is at:
>http://people.redhat.com/drepper/tls.pdf
>
>We can handle the kernel  side pretty much already
>(We've had our eye on this for  a while)
>but it's the tools, linker etc that are going to be the problems..
>The library parts are "understood".
>
>This is basically a call to find out "who is interested?"
>
>Some people have already indicated some interest but don't let that stop 
>them from piping up again now.. 
>(people often are interested in something but time constraints
>etc. change and...)
>
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