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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:56:50 -0800
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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To: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
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James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

> 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.

This is not possible.  The infrastructure is set up in the dynamic
linker.  Read the mail with the references to the NPTL mailing list.
The second referenced mail contains a recipe for building glibc and then
using it in-place.  This is not possible with binary RPMs in the way we
build them.

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