Implementing TLS: step 1

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Thu Jun 19 13:23:51 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:20:13PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> 1. The kernel already iterates over the program headers and can
>    pass the address and size of the TLS template to the process
>    (or RTLD) by means of the auxargs (ie have AT_TLS_ADDR and
>    AT_TLS_SIZE). If no template exists AT_TLS_* will be zero.
>    This prevents coding object file dependencies on thread and
						   ^^^^^^^^^
I mean: in the thread libraries.

Sorry about that,

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net


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