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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:56:08 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
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 ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102231850270.9424-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102230125.f1N1P2g47761@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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


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