April 27, 2011
6:30 p.m.
On Wednesday 27 Apr 2011 10:03:47 am Prabhu nath wrote:
My Apologies for top posting. Now in continuation to my previous question. Is there a method to know whether segmentation unit is enabled or disabled either from Kernel space or user space.
Thanks, Prabhu
You need to bottom post. Sigh! As far as I understand the kernel sets up minimal segmentation. All the segments start from 0 and all offsets have limits to 0xFFFFF. So the segment addresses corresponds to the linear addresses. Even if there is paging enabled there is segment translation. Please feel free to correct me if I have misunderstood.