On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote:

> I was wondering in which occasions is this
> system call being invoked: did anybody had encountered (or used himeslf)
> a call to modify_ldt() in other apps (emulators maybe ? ).

qemu uses it:

"The Linux system call modify_ldt() is used to create x86 selectors to
test some 16 bit addressing and 32 bit with segmentation cases."

I assume that wine uses is for similar reasons, but haven't checked.

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


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