From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 0:44:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF76150B6 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:44:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA21839; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:42:25 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA23974; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:40:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA17098; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:24:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21523; Wed, 10 Mar 99 09:33:55 +0100 Message-Id: <36E62FAC.C9E199D8@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:39:08 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Boune, Damian" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Kernel Options - USER_LDT - Usage References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, The latest info is *generally* the safest (LINT is also *generally* the best source for info on config files) I have Linux emulation running on 3.1-S (I also had it on 2.2.*) and never had USER_LDT enabled. TfH "Boune, Damian" wrote: > > A little confusion here - > > Quote from The Complete FreeBSD - > "USER_LDT allows user processes to manipulate their local descriptor > table. This is required for Linux emulation." > > Quote from file "LINT" (2.2.8:/usr/sys/i386/conf/) - > "Allow user-mode programs to manipulate their local descriptor > tables. This option is required for the WINE Windows(tm) emulator, and is > not used by anything else (that we know of)." > > Is this option really required for Linux emulation? > > Damian Boune > County Of Napa > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message