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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:00:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sanitize TLS API
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Currently sys_set_thread_area has a magic flags argument that might
> change it's behaivour completly.
> 
> Split out the TLS_FLAG_CLEAR case that has nothing in common with the
> rest into it's own syscall, sys_clear_thread_area and change the second
> argument to int writable.

i did not feel like wasting two syscall slots for this, but the cleanups
look fine to me otherwise.

	Ingo

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