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Re: 68k and coldfire and future



On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> could someone explain issue with TLS,
> 
> ? it is needed because SSL is not up to GNU FSW standards ?
> 
> ? the GNU package for TLS does not build without some hidden
> assumed support ? I looked on the GNU download page and it mentions
> it requires one package but that says nothing to do with glibc... (its
> crypto s/w).

You looked at the wrong explanation for `TLS'. `dict TLS' gives:

| 2 definitions found
| 
| From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
| 
|   TLS
|        Thread Local Storage
| 
| 
| 
| From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
| 
|   TLS
|        Transport Layer Security [protocol] (SSL)

In this context, it's about the Thread Local Storage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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