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Date:      Sun, 07 Nov 1999 01:03:02 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doscmd broken on current? 
Message-ID:  <199911070903.BAA10454@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Nov 1999 22:24:35 %2B0200." <199911062024.WAA41602@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> 

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> > >Is doscmd working for anyone on current? Here I just get:
> > >
> > >---------
> > >
> > >I have tried it on a single processor and SMP -current and both do the same
> > >thing. I had it working a while back, so I think my configuration is ok.
> > >
> > >Ideas on how to look into this?
> > 
> > Start by invoking it with the various debug/trace options.  I'd guess
> > that it may be broken by the signal-related changes that were made
> > recently.
> 
> hehehe It dies at the very first vm86 instruction, so I guess something
> isn't setup correctly to enter vm86 mode via the sigreturn():

I bet that someone got smart and disallowed PSL_VM in eflags on a 
return to user-mode.
-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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