linux-kernel - Re: Duplicate vsyscall/vdso gettimeofday implementations on x86

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Message-ID: <87ws66v61c.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:50:23 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...x.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Duplicate vsyscall/vdso gettimeofday implementations on x86_64

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:

> john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com> writes:
>>
>> Hrmm. Can we deprecate the old method and push glibc to use the new one?
>
> That would break every old 64bit executable. Also not there are programs

s/not/note/

> who don't use glibc.

-Andi

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