From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/542 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: aep Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Dynamic linker refactoring Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:19:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20120121010554.GA8306@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327148221 23598 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2012 12:17:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:17:01 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: musl-return-543-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Jan 21 13:16:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@lo.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RoZsP-0003Xe-Pz for gllmg-musl@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:16:57 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 26411 invoked by uid 550); 21 Jan 2012 12:16:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 26403 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2012 12:16:57 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20120121010554.GA8306@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Sender: aep@exys.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.4 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:542 Archived-At: 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?