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From: Bruce Evans (bdezeta.org.au)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 19:06:45 CST

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    On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

    > On 01-Dec-01 Dave wrote:
    > >
    > > I really have no clue what the kernel option:
    > > options USER_LDT
    > >
    > > means, except this rugged definition I found in LINT (paraphrase):
    > > "Allow applications running in user space to manipulate the Local
    > > Descriptor Table (LDT)"
    > >
    > > Since it didn't come in the GENERIC (FBSD 4.4 REL), I'm assuming that
    > > someone, somewhere, thought it would be a good idea to have this disabled
    > > by default and maybe it was meant to be added in only by people who know
    > > what they are doing.
    >
    > No, it's enabled by default, not disabled by default.

    Er, not in RELENG_4. It can only be enabled by default if it doesn't exist,
    as in -current :-).

    Bruce

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