patch #4 (Re: patch #3 (Re: The time has come for a kernel interfacing library layer))

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu May 12 11:54:00 PDT 2005


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:14:24AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Then we are back to giving the RTLD a different syscall compatibility
>     layer, one that stores errno locally.

OK, I tried to offer a layer which works with minimal overhead and allows
me to implement the symbol versioning without problems. I tried to offer
a concept which doesn't need different handling for RTLD and normal system.
I tried to avoid *nasty* TCB hacks. I give up.

Joerg





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