Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> It's only less effort "all around" because you wouldn't have to do any
> of it.  Don't you think that someone would have fixed this
> well-documented limitation in the last eight or so years if there was a
> practical fix?  There isn't.
> 
> These options work:
>   - Drop kernel 2.2 support.  I wouldn't mind doing this, but there
>     may be some opposition; we still get 2.2.x kernel users
>     periodically.  When glibc is built to assume 2.4 kernels it can
>     handle alternate stacks.

I think dropping support for 2.2 kernel on x86 is fine.  The only 2.2
kernel-images still in unstable are for m68k.