Subject: Re: Arch-specific maxproc limit?
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
From: Joel Wilsson <joelw@unix.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/14/2002 06:49:01
On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 05:57  am, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> AFAIK, USER_LDT is only used by Wine. Each Windows app can have up to 2
> LDT entries in GDT, one for app itself, and optionally, one for DPMI
> int 0x31 interface. However, I don't think "/ 2" is necessary, since
> very few Windows apps actually use DPMI and hardly anybody is running
> such program under Wine & NetBSD these days (if someone _really_ wanted
> to run one, I'd recommend that he buy a copy of Win9X).

I don't know if it's up to date, but avifile's MESSAGES says:
This package requires a kernel built with
the directive:

options USER_LDT

But hardly anybody is running that instead of mplayer, right? :)