Subject: Re: Arch-specific maxproc limit?
To: Joel Wilsson <joelw@unix.se>
From: Quentin Garnier <netbsd-port-i386@quatriemek.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/14/2002 09:08:37
Le Sat, 14 Dec 2002 06:49:01 +0100
Joel Wilsson a écrit :
> 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? :)

mplayer uses avifile's DLL loader, so it has the same requirement to use
Win32 codecs.

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