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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [4616] NPTL host detection and futex syscall
	passthrough.
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:14:02 +0100
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Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>

On Friday 30 May 2008, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:34:12PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Revision: 4616
> >           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4616
> > Author:   pbrook
> > Date:     2008-05-29 14:34:11 +0000 (Thu, 29 May 2008)
> >
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > NPTL host detection and futex syscall passthrough.
>
> This patch has no support for NPTL-specific clone flags (CLONE_*TID),
> which was in your NPTL patch. Do you have any plans to add it?

That's deliberate. Implementing clone() is fairly pointless if you don't also 
make qemu threadsafe.
I'll be contributing full thread support shortly.

Paul