Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:02:01 +1030 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LDT changes to support SysVR4 emulator Message-ID: <199901281132.WAA00464@atdot.dotat.org>
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Ok, people, heads up -- I'm about to commit a patch to /sys/i386
which changes the way FreeBSD uses the x86 LDT. Specifically,
I'm moving LUDATA_SEL from LDT entry 4 to 5 (Why 5? Why not?)
and re-using entry 4 as a call gate for SysV system calls made
by library stubs from Solaris 2.6 and higher.
I've been running with these mods for about a month now with no
problems at all (there are no userland implications AFAICT).
Nevertheless, I'm going to leave this in for a couple of days
before committing the rest of the emulator to give interested
parties a chance to bitch at me :-)
Cheers,
- mark
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