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Re: PATCH: Add STO_COPY

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:28:27PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:45:41AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > Who has? If you object, I can make it i386 specific.
> 
> You know where to find the list of blanket write folk.
> 
> Personally, I'm with Roland in that I don't necessarily
> agree that this is a problem that needs solving.
> 

There is one test in glibc which is currently disabled because of this
bug. I don't see how you can justify the silent failure. The overhead
in ld.so is minimum and the bit in st_other is reused. If there is no
better proposal, I'd like to put in an x86 specific fix.


H.J.
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