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[Ulrich Drepper]

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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).

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? Ulrich Drepper ? Red Hat, Inc. ? 444 Castro St ? Mountain View, CA ?
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