> i haven't looked at your code, > but a text interface is better than binary. > if you make the first field the table index number, > then you don't need to bother with seeking > to fixed offsets. design a text format that is > convenient to use instead of forcing the binary > interface on everyone.
thats a good idea. i'll look into it. should the descriptor be presented in a decoded/splitted up form or just be the text representation of the numerical values? > also i wonder if this should really be in > a separate ldt instead of polluting the gdt. older versions of glibc use an ldt entry per thread but it got deprecated for tls use by set_thread_area wich works only with with gdt entries. also ldt is not supported on amd64, but gdt segments are still present and used for tls on linux. > russ -- cinap
