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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:06:19 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        brians@mandor.dev.com (Brian Smith)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Willows
Message-ID:  <199602020136.MAA25688@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199602011702.JAA24365@mandor.dev.com> from "Brian Smith" at Feb 1, 96 09:02:15 am

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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

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