set_fs/get_fs/get_ds macros

Guest (guest@manjak.knm.org.pl)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:39:14 +0200


Hello,

Could somebody explain me a little the above macros. I saw them in code
that called userspace syscalls from the kernels, but I haven't understand
yet what the code does. Do they change the current segment or something ?

Thanks,
Martin

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