Need help to understand TLS behavior

[Jeremy Manson]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:40 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
wrote:

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> On 16/12/2015 8:03 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
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>> I expect the official answer from you guys about this is going to end up
>> being "bump your Xss if you really care", which is deeply sad.
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> As a point fix a way to change the stack size of the process reaper thread
> might suffice. But that is a band-aid. I can imagine bugs of the form "when
> we run our Java code stand-alone it runs fine, but as soon as we embed the
> JVM in our own application front-end it fails with StackOverflowErrors
> everywhere". :(
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Why do you think we have the local patch in the first place?  The horse has
bolted on this being a problem for real users.  We're just lucky enough (or
insane enough) to roll both our own glibc and our own JDK...

Jeremy