Bug#226716: Confirmed TLS broken on 2.4 kernels
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:16:49AM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> writes:
> > IIRC Daniel Jacobowitz decided that we didn't support TLS stuff on
> > 2.4 kernel, so we need to use 2.6 kernel.
> Right, but this is not the problem!
Well, it would be nice if it could support it since it previously did
but as you say that is in some ways less serious than the current
situation.
> If some glibc/kernel combination doesn't support TLS, it should refuse
> to load code that requires TLS support. You can probably implement
> this by checking for the ELF "TLS" program header.
I'd also suggest that a NEWS.Debian file should be provided announcing
this change - that would make the source of the problem a lot easier to
diagnose. At present things fail silently and looking at the package I
can't seem to find documentation that there has been a deliberate change
(there are some references to TLS is NEWS but they don't really suggest
what's happened to 2.4 support - they just note additional support for
ELF TLS).
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