Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have_NPTL proposal/question
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:20:14
Message-Id: 4285ECF8.9090103@flaska.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: have_NPTL proposal/question by R Hill
1 R Hill wrote:
2 > the only thing i know of that needs LT is Xen, and they're already
3 > working on NPTL support.
4
5 IIRC, Xen has problems with Thread Local Storage. They have created some
6 workaround, but it was very slow and buggy, and so they decided not to
7 use NPTL (not sure about the last point).
8
9 Suggested "fix" to glibc was `mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.old`.
10
11 Maybe the situation has changed; I haven't checked their ML for several
12 months.
13
14 -jkt
15
16 --
17 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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