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tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > That's too much of an overhead. The use of the LDT is there to speed > > things up. > > This is just too likely to break distributions. We should avoid this > kind of thing. Is at all possible to check a single global variable? What are you talking about? This will not break anything since there is a test for the kernel version at the beginning of the program execution. -- ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------
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