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authorhttps://me.yahoo.com/a/g3Ccalpj0NhN566pHbUl6i9QF0QEkrhlfPM-#b1c14 <diana@web>2015-02-16 20:08:03 +0100
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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-
-[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]]
-
-Evaluate whether or not usage of vDSOs (virtual dynamically linked shared
-objects; [[!wikipedia vDSO]]) can be useful in a GNU Hurd system.
-
-Explanation and example for the Linux kernel: [Creating a vDSO: the Colonel's
-Other
-Chicken](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/creating-vdso-colonels-other-chicken),
-Matt Davis, 2012-02-06. The *Resources* given are also worth reading.
-Basically, this is useful for exporting data from the kernel (generally, or
-given a process context ([[Unix]]), or task/thread context, and so on).
-
-On a GNU Hurd system, parts of the data that makes up a process context doesn't
-actually live inside the kernel, but instead is directly held in glibc. For
-example `sysdeps/mach/hurd/getpid.c:__getpid` does a mere `return _hurd_pid`.
-For this reason, vDSOs might not be as useful on GNU Hurd as they are with the
-Linux kernel. Or, put another way, as GNU Hurd system doesn't have many
-[[system_call]]s, also there aren't many that could be replaced.
-
-Generally only *real* [[system_call]]s should be candidates for implementation
-with vDSO code, because otherwise that'd break the ([[RPC]]) system's inherent
-[[/virtualization]] capabilities.
-
-Having vDSO code might be useful for:
-
- * `mach_*_self`: `mach_host_self`, `mach_task_self`, `mach_thread_self`?
-
- * [[mapped-time_interface|microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/device/time]]
-
- Every application can then use that via the regular
- `gettimeofday`/`clock_gettime` and similar calls instead of using the
- special [[hurd/libshouldbeinlibc]]'s `<maptime.h>` interface.
-
- Can implement [[`clock_gettime` stuff|clock_gettime]] more easily that way,
- for example for nanosecond precision?
-
- Now, the [[mapped-time_interface]] is virtualizable -- the question is
- whether there is a way so that we can make a compromise here?