preloader: Setup a fake thread-local storage block pointed to by %gs. breaks RH9

[Robert Reif]

This last commit: 
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-November/027508.html 
totally breaks wine on Red Hat 9.

Red Hat 9 has been partially broken since 2.4 kernel support has been 
dropped a while back but this patch makes it totally unusable.

It is unfortunate that 2.4 kernel support has been removed from wine 
because in "The Real World" (large enterprise and dedicated or embedded 
systems) users don't have the option of upgrading the OS to the latest 
and greatest.  Some systems will never be upgraded once deployed.  
Dropping 2.4 support is a regression.

preloader: Setup a fake thread-local storage block pointed to by %gs. breaks RH9

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Reif <reif(a)earthlink.net> writes:
> This last commit:
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-November/027508.html
> totally breaks wine on Red Hat 9.

How is it broken?
> Red Hat 9 has been partially broken since 2.4 kernel support has been
> dropped a while back but this patch makes it totally unusable.
>
> It is unfortunate that 2.4 kernel support has been removed from wine
> because in "The Real World" (large enterprise and dedicated or
> embedded systems) users don't have the option of upgrading the OS to
> the latest and greatest.  Some systems will never be upgraded once
> deployed.  Dropping 2.4 support is a regression.

2.4 support is not dropped at all, it still works fine. What doesn't
work is using a recent glibc on a kernel that doesn't support NPTL;
that's not something we can do anything about. If you use an old glibc
with an old kernel everything should still work fine.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org