d/freebsd-skq
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Some word smithing adopted from the PR.

Browse Source 
PR:		docs/54451
Originally by:	Andreas Fuchs
Adopted by:	jhb
MFC after:	3 days
This commit is contained in:
Ruslan Ermilov 2006-10-13 20:28:58 +00:00
parent 081871afc8
commit 531ba7c084
1 changed files with 15 additions and 15 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

30
lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_get_ldt.2
View File

@ -52,24 +52,24 @@
The
.Fn i386_get_ldt
system call
will return the list of i386 descriptors that the process has in its
returns a list of the i386 descriptors in the current process'
LDT.
The
.Fn i386_set_ldt
system call
will set a list of i386 descriptors for the current process in its
sets a list of i386 descriptors in the current process'
LDT.
Both routines accept a starting selector number
.Fa start_sel ,
an array of memory that
will contain the descriptors to be set or returned
.Fa descs ,
and the number of entries to set or return
.Fa num_sels .
.Pp
The argument
For both routines,
.Fa start_sel
specifies the index of the selector in the LDT at which to begin and
.Fa descs
can be either segment_descriptor or gate_descriptor and are defined in
points to an array of
.Fa num_sels
descriptors to be set or returned.
.Pp
Each entry in the
.Fa descs
array can be either a segment_descriptor or gate_descriptor and are defined in
.In i386/segments.h .
These structures are defined by the architecture
as disjoint bit-fields, so care must be taken in constructing them.
@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ returns the number of descriptors currently in the LDT.
The
.Fn i386_set_ldt
system call
returns the first selector set.
In the case when a descriptor is allocated by the kernel, its number will
be returned.
returns the first selector set on success.
If the kernel allocated a descriptor in the LDT,
the allocated index is returned.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global
variable
.Va errno