Speaking of optimization, I think the rseq.c helper library (and eventually glibc) should define the __rseq_abi TLS variable with __attribute__((tls_model("initial-exec"))). It provides faster, and signal-safe, accesses to the TLS variable from libraries. The idea you were suggesting where the application could override the glibc symbol with its own just ends up enforcing an initial-exec model, but it looks like we can do this directly from the library. Thoughts ? Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html