From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 23 0: 4:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216C337B491; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00587; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:04:34 +1100 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:56:08 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/i386 genassym.c machdep.c mp_machdep.c pmap.c swtch.s sys_machdep.c vm_machdep.c src/sys/i386/include globaldata.h pcb.h pcb_ext.h ... In-Reply-To: <200102230125.f1N1P2g47761@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > peter 2001/02/22 17:25:02 PST > > Modified files: > sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 > sys/i386/conf NOTES > sys/i386/i386 genassym.c machdep.c mp_machdep.c pmap.c > swtch.s sys_machdep.c vm_machdep.c > sys/i386/include globaldata.h pcb.h pcb_ext.h > sys/i386/svr4 svr4_machdep.c > sys/pc98/i386 machdep.c > Log: > Activate USER_LDT by default. The new thread libraries are going to > depend on this. The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux > binaries too. VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was made default > a while ago. > > Reviewed by: jhb, imp Arrgh. This activates it as standard. It should only be activated by default in GENERIC. Why use this mistake in new libraries? I use it to run Wine, but don't like it's cost and don't trust its security. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message