To expand on Korona's answer: arch_prctl() can set FS on x86_64. set_thread_area() was the old system call for 32-bit applications to install a thread-local GDT segment that can point anywhere, and that you can then load yourself into whatever segment you wish. set_tid_address() is something else entirely. It sets an address meant to hold the thread's TID. When the thread exits, the kernel sets that address to 0 and performs a futex-wake on the address. This can be used to implement threading libraries. For instance, you can implement pthread_join() by having one thread wait on the TID address of the other thread.
_________________ Thou hast outraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.
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