Package: glibc
Version: 2.3.5-8
Severity: important
When using 2.4 kernels, the linuxthreads library makes an incorrect assumption
about stack usage that causes applications to crash if they use user stacks.
This does not occur on 2.6 kernels (because they use a different threading
library). I
Just for reference, below is the status of knetbsd.
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:59:22AM +, David Given wrote:
The reason: because 2.4 kernels don't support thread local storage,
That's not, in fact, true. LinuxThreads uses thread local storage when
configured for i686. The only i686-configured C libraries we ship for
x86 at this point in
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