Re: [PATCH] sanitize TLS API

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:00:09 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Currently sys_set_thread_area has a magic flags argument that might
> change it's behaivour completly.
>
> Split out the TLS_FLAG_CLEAR case that has nothing in common with the
> rest into it's own syscall, sys_clear_thread_area and change the second
> argument to int writable.

i did not feel like wasting two syscall slots for this, but the cleanups
look fine to me otherwise.

Ingo

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