Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso

[Francis Moreau]

On 9/16/07, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/16/07, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Another question: is vdso going to replace vsyscall at all ? If so how

It's weird,  because it seems that vsyscalls are only done by x86_64,
all others archs have only vdso... so they seem to forget about
statically linked apps...

> > are statically programs going to be handled ?
>
> Unfortunately the vsyscalls cannot ever go completely away.
> Statically linked apps, the bane of progress, will need them.

Actually if we could easily retrieve the vdso in a process memory
mapping (through a new syscall or /proc/self/maps), it should be easy
for gcc/ld to statically links vdso functions into a statically linked
app, shouldn't it ?

-- 
Francis
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