On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:12:36AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Situation: > > Current glibc have a mechanism called hwcaps. It is not documented and > I was never able to correctly use it anyway. Parts of this mechanism are > used to have TLS libraries. > There are several problems with that: > - Several hacks to use that for tls. > - Not working.
You need to be a lot more specific than that. It works. I use it every day. > Proposal: > > * The capabilities are referenced by name. There are several sources available > to select the used ones, others may be added later: > - /etc/ld.so.capabilities > - environment variable: LD_CAPABILITIES No way. An additional data source with a grammar that needs to be parsed at every application's startup? What are you trying to accomplish with this proposal? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

