Hi Joel,

<snip>

> since Linux doesn't use segmentation , all the segment descriptor values > 
> are the same. So I think it doesn't matter what selector value you load > in 
> DS, ES etc. Though I don't know the real reason for why __USER_DS  is > used 
> instead of __KERNEL_DS

Although, linux doesn't use segmentation, but I believe the DPL values are 
different for user and kernel data segment descriptor. Please correct me if I 
am wrong.

thanks,
rahul




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