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    SubjectRe: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fix)
    On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:36:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Maybe your libc is different on the different machines? Normal programs
    > shouldn't use segments at all, so I really do not see how this patch could
    > matter in the least, even if it was completely and utterly buggy (which is
    > not obvious at first glance).
    >
    > I wonder why you seem to have an LDT at all..

    glibc 2.2 linuxthreads sets up an LDT to use %gs as thread local data base
    pointer.


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