From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 23 12:48:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DFE37B416 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0NKmMl62315; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:48:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0NKlox81649; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:47:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:47:35 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020123.134735.81923011.imp@village.org> To: eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com Cc: kwc@TheWorld.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel option USER_LDT issues in -stable From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <200201222110.QAA9516725@shell.TheWorld.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Daniel Eischen writes: : On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: : > Hello, : > : > Are there any issues (security, reliablity, performance, etc.) : > with regard to the USER_LDT kernel option in -stable? Since : > this appears to be defined by default in -current, why is this : > not the case with -stable? : : I can see it being required in -current soon as threadsNG : is going to need it. I don't see the harm in making it : default in -stable, but I can't address any security concerns : (if there are any). There are no security reasons for it, afaik. Last time this came up no one could come up with any. And the mplayer port wants it too :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message