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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
Date: 6 Feb 2002 15:35:35 -0800
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By author:    Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
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>
> Unlike d) with LDT, where unmodified glibc could work with older kernels
> too, thus would mean strict kernel minimum version requirement (with LDT d)
> it would be just an optimization).
> 

Just make it a fallback option.

	-hpa
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