From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 17:22:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA19570 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:22:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19547 Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA25688; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:06:20 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602020136.MAA25688@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Willows To: brians@mandor.dev.com (Brian Smith) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:06:19 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602011702.JAA24365@mandor.dev.com> from "Brian Smith" at Feb 1, 96 09:02:15 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian Smith stands accused of saying: > > > >User-LDT access is already available; we have dlopen & friends, anyone > >care to comment about what happens when a process generates an interrupt? > > The User-LDT even in current is broken in a couple of ways. It was imported > from NetBSD a while back, so I just ftp'ed NetBSD kernel src last night to > determine what needs to be changed. Your first problem will be that it > doesn't allocate enough space for the full 8192 possible LDT entries. > > I'll email a partial patch to those who need more than 512 LDT entries > right now, but, there are still some problems with my current patch, such > as leaking memory at process exit. Definitely. You're nominated as the LDT expert for the Willows port. Congratulations! 8) > Brian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[