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Message-ID: <b4f75a9df9e517a22a5187ec3521de99@exys.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:19:40 +0100
From: aep <aep@...s.org>
To: <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic linker refactoring

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:05:54 -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I'm leaning towards stripping out the vdso
> (linux-gate) support at the dynamic linker level entirely, and 
> instead
> using Nik's original design for vdso-assisted clock_gettime which can
> work with static linking too.

isn't the vdso there for much more then just clock_gettime? Ie for a 
whole bunch of syscalls that otherwise need to go through the slow 
interrupt path?

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