From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: setXid
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414F2F98.9020905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409201920.i8KJK8Vm024192@magilla.sf.frob.com>
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Roland McGrath wrote:
> To be fair, we haven't presented Linus et al with an actual implementation
> to fix the kernel semantics cleanly.
I have exchanged a lot of emails on this topic with Linus and several
others. The main point they disagree with you is ...
> I have never been in favor of a per-thread ID extension.
They definitely want to preserve this and therefore any kernel solution
is as nonatomic as the userlevel implementation. (not my analysis).
I think this is as good as we'll get it any time soon (or ever).
- --
? Ulrich Drepper ? Red Hat, Inc. ? 444 Castro St ? Mountain View, CA ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-20 0:27 setXid Ulrich Drepper
2004-09-20 19:20 ` setXid Roland McGrath
2004-09-20 19:29 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2004-09-20 19:50 ` setXid Roland McGrath
2004-09-20 20:19 ` setXid Ulrich Drepper
2004-09-20 20:26 ` setXid Roland McGrath
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