[OpenIndiana-discuss] Wine and recent Openindiana

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

>I found an article (https://lwn.net/Articles/741878/) stating that " On 
>current Linux systems, the LDT is almost unused but some applications 
>(Wine, for example) still need it. When it is used, the LDT must be 
>available to both kernel and user space, but it must live in kernel 
>space."
>
>I'm not sure how it is tackled down in illumos kernel as it is way 
>beyond my comprehension level, 'just throwing stuff as brainstorming 
>information.

I think we need a feature like the one described below:

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL.html

Currently, sys/segments.h defines things related to LDT.

A.S.


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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece