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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A3)
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote:

> When the vsyscall page is created, copy the one needed function
> into it. The kernel is already self-modifying in many places; this
> is nothing new.

AFAIK this will only works on ia32 and x86_64 and not definitely not
on ia64. Who knows about the other platforms ....

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