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Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0709171331s4cb302c3g5d0a4214981a2980@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:31:50 +0200
From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso
On 9/16/07, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/07, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com> wrote:
> > Another question: is vdso going to replace vsyscall at all ? If so how
It's weird, because it seems that vsyscalls are only done by x86_64,
all others archs have only vdso... so they seem to forget about
statically linked apps...
> > are statically programs going to be handled ?
>
> Unfortunately the vsyscalls cannot ever go completely away.
> Statically linked apps, the bane of progress, will need them.
Actually if we could easily retrieve the vdso in a process memory
mapping (through a new syscall or /proc/self/maps), it should be easy
for gcc/ld to statically links vdso functions into a statically linked
app, shouldn't it ?
--
Francis
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