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Re: [PATCH] PowerPC - Add a faster way to get the thread id

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
Cc: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>,<libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <rsa at us dot ibm dot com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:23:52 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC - Add a faster way to get the thread id
References: <1352141072-17024-1-git-send-email-emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com><20121105184934.66DBC2C09B@topped-with-meat.com>

On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> There is nothing powerpc-specific about that information, so it would never
> be appropriate to add a powerpc-specific interface for it.  If you want to
> make the case for adding a public interface to access this Linux-specific
> information, make that case (I doubt we'll be convinced).

The request for such an interface is bug 6399 - and 14300 for conversion 
of a pthread_t to a TID.  If we conclude that we don't want such 
interfaces then those bugs should be closed.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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