Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753834AbXIPUYR (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:24:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751931AbXIPUYG (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:24:06 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:35155 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752030AbXIPUYE (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:24:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=dzCclxtpBicCHbjt1GD5gXoRUutslO0O0KHbLdmPnwopfweSGy94bk4uIb3aDKUkqrVucevJz+nOezWIeuerk/Awk9/PW/nLEW9i2j2y/a9bNsg6Jtj7qbtXwq5uUpfQhBYw6G1VU+9FyTAJk48/peE9SsvR5sEk8yGxN8SqmDA= Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0709161324p6841c1f9h6f9422b0e6c4b5cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:24:04 +0200 From: "Francis Moreau" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 19 Hello, I'm a bit puzzled because vdso doesn't seem to be used on my fedora 7: I just compiled a trivial program which just call gettimeofday() and ld.so resolves this call with vsyscall's gettimeofday. Now I'm wondering when vdso is used, could anybody give me a clue ? Another question: is vdso going to replace vsyscall at all ? If so how are statically programs going to be handled ? Thanks, -- Francis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/