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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:20:46 +0100
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Cc: aia21@cam.ac.uk (Anton Altaparmakov),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel),
        vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
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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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