Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 22:00:22 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de> To: brians@mandor.dev.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Willows Message-ID: <199602082100.WAA10280@saturn> In-Reply-To: <199602011702.JAA24365@mandor.dev.com>
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In article <199602011702.JAA24365@mandor.dev.com> you write: >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, I'm intrested... > but, there are still some problems with my current patch, such >as leaking memory at process exit. Also a while ago while playing with wine i noticed its LDT stuff(?) made fork() panic, and at least wine needs fork for the async winsocket calls... (2.1 kernel, no current here yet.) also looking forward to a twin port, Juergen
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