Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:51:51 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: i386_set_ldt differences between 4.x and 5.x? Message-ID: <200510081951.51894.tijl@ulyssis.org>
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i386_set_ldt(int start_sel, union descriptor *descs, int num_sels); The man page for this function in FreeBSD 5.x mentions the following: "If num_descs is 1, start_sels is valid, and descs is NULL, then i386_set_ldt() will free that descriptor (making it available to be reallocated again later)." Am I right when I say this is only because 5.x allows dynamic allocation of descriptors and that freeing a descriptor isn't necessary for pre-5.0 versions of FreeBSD (and current versions of Net/OpenBSD)?
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