Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:03:07 +0200 | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels | From | Jan Janecek <> |
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2014-04-12 15:25, H. Peter Anvin: > On 04/12/2014 02:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >>> Run a 32-bit VM. The 32-bit kernel does this right. >> >> I really don't think that's the answer. >> >> If people really run these 16-bit programs, we need to allow it. >> Clearly it used to work. >> >> Just make the unconditional "don't allow 16-bit segments" be a sysconf >> entry. >> > > Well, is there more than one user, really... that's my question. >
Just to let you know, I use this too for running some old Win16 apps, so there's at least two of us... But doesn't this change also break DPMI apps running in dosemu?
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