Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:20:46 +0100
In article <E16YSLg-00056Z-00@the-village.bc.nu> you wrote:
>> I am ignorant on the subject, but why LDT is used in Linux at all?
>> LDT register can be set to 0, this can speed up task switch time and save
>> some memory used for LDT.
>
> Wine and certain threaded applications
Xenix/286 binary emulation.
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