Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:07:51 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@theworld.com> Subject: Re: Kernel option USER_LDT issues in -stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0201240052150.9101-100000@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> wrote: > 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). Linux has been providing this for years (if not forever), and it really would be nice to be able to use the Wine port and other software, which is especially relevant for non-technical users, without having to build a custom kernel. (In fact, does it even make sense to have this as an option and not just provide this functionality unconditionally?) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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