Re: glibc - capaibility control mechanism
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:12:36AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Situation:
>
> Current glibc have a mechanism called hwcaps. It is not documented and
> I was never able to correctly use it anyway. Parts of this mechanism are
> used to have TLS libraries.
> There are several problems with that:
> - Several hacks to use that for tls.
> - Not working.
You need to be a lot more specific than that. It works. I use it every day.
> Proposal:
>
> * The capabilities are referenced by name. There are several sources available
> to select the used ones, others may be added later:
> - /etc/ld.so.capabilities
> - environment variable: LD_CAPABILITIES
No way. An additional data source with a grammar that needs to be
parsed at every application's startup?
What are you trying to accomplish with this proposal?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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