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>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

Ulrich> I've talked to our guy producing the glibc RPMs and he said
Ulrich> that he'll produce them soon.  We'll let people know when it
Ulrich> happened.

I'd tend to prefer an LD_PRELOAD-able dso that just set up %gs and had
entries for each of the foo(2) over a full glibc rpm.  I've only got
the one box to test on right now, but would like to see how well
sysenter? works.

-JimC

? Assuming I didn't just mix up the intel and amd opcodes....

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