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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:55:36 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fix)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012291929250.1722-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:36:21PM -0800
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:36:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Maybe your libc is different on the different machines? Normal programs
> shouldn't use segments at all, so I really do not see how this patch could
> matter in the least, even if it was completely and utterly buggy (which is
> not obvious at first glance).
> 
> I wonder why you seem to have an LDT at all..

glibc 2.2 linuxthreads sets up an LDT to use %gs as thread local data base 
pointer.


-Andi
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