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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:44:43 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, 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 ...
Message-ID:  <20010223034443.G1785@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102231850270.9424-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:56:08PM %2B1100
References:  <200102230125.f1N1P2g47761@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102231850270.9424-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:56:08PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > 
> >   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.

Agreed.  If someone knows they don't need it and doesn't want it, why are
we forcing it upon them when we already had a nice mechanism for easily
turning it on.


-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX

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