LDT use in LinuxThreads

[Ulrich Drepper]

tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> That's fine; I thought you were talking about checking a compile-time
> constant.

At compile time you provide configure with the minimal supported
kernel version and this will be enforced at runtime.  With Andreas'
information we can restrict the use of LDT on kernel 2.3.49 and later
and enable the feature only if such a kernel is the minimum
requirement.

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