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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:14:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> So I would go with:
> 
> 1) global sysctl to turn off vgettimeofday/vtime
> 2) if 1) is unacceptable then per-task turnoff of vsyscalls would be the
>    next viable solution
> 
> Comments?

I think (2) is a more general solution. Let UML handle any cases it
wishes, not limited to just this particular vsyscall.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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