From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 10 13:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03C137BADD; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:53:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p32-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.97]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id GAA14211; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 06:52:55 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38C96E69.F002B997@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 06:51:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Doug Rabson , Martin Cracauer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include npx.h References: <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000310224345.A20522@cons.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > > cracauer 2000/03/10 09:56:33 PST > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > sys/i386/include npx.h > > > > Log: > > > > Change the default FPU control word so that exceptions for new > > > > processes are now masked until set by fpsetmask(3). > > The only real drawback now is that our experienced user can't really > choose anymore. In the past, you could change your own machines to > masked exceptions, but now ports will stop inserting fpsetmask(3) > calls soon and hence the other way for the cautios user will not work > for long (unless the mass is high enough to catch those ports). But > since you don't gain more from blindly inserted fpsetmask calls than > from a default-to-masked the real paranoid people will maybe see the > situation as improved, not weakend. Isn't there any way to make this sysctl'able? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message