Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:04:56 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | vsyscalls |
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:31:10PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote: > dean> ingo started the proper work for this, for example, see: > dean> <http://people.redhat.com/mingo/vsyscall-patches/vsyscall-2.3.32-F4> > dean> (there's a documentation file near the bottom of the patch) > dean> but it doesn't appear to support gettimeofday via rdtsc yet. > Interesting patch; when last I looked, vsyscalls were only being > implemented on the new 64-bit architectures.
> Does this patch break binary compatibility? I seem to recall that being > Andrea's reason for not running vsyscalls on standard x86 back in August > last year.
WinNT looks like it supports vsyscalls (or at least SYSENTER).
mark
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