On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:28:16PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > What is the point in writing 0 to ds and es. Won't this fault again later when > referenced. Or is that, fault generation is postponed to user space ? (Assuming > that it enters user space after RESTORE_ALL) Maybe, if it uses ds/es. If we don't do this, I guess the process will kill the kernel (the kernel loads invalid segments.. oops) which is not a good thing. -- Mark Zealey (aka JALH on irc.openprojects.net: #zealos and many more) mark@zealos.org mark@itsolve.co.uk UL++++>$ G!>(GCM/GCS/GS/GM) dpu? s:-@ a16! C++++>$ P++++>+++++$ L+++>+++++$ !E---? W+++>$ N- !o? !w--- O? !M? !V? !PS !PE--@ PGP+? r++ !t---?@ !X---? !R- b+ !tv b+ DI+ D+? G+++ e>+++++ !h++* r!-- y-- (www.geekcode.com) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
