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Subject: Re: Duplicate vsyscall/vdso gettimeofday implementations on x86_64
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 00:12 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > I think the implementation in vclock_gettime.c is nice, as it mostly
> > reuses the clock_gettime() code, but I don't think it actually gets
> > called.
> 
> It depends on what glibc uses.

Hrmm. Can we deprecate the old method and push glibc to use the new one?
If we remove it the vsyscall interface will old glibc's fall-back
gracefully? 

thanks
-john