disabled by default. Enable with sysctl -w machdep.userldt=1 This will allow people to use the few ports that require this functionality to work without requiring the user to recompile a kernel. The option USER_LDT remains in order to not increase size on the installation media. It is now enabled in GENERIC. Per espie@'s idea, but my diff was much simpler than his; ok deraadt@OPENBSD_3_4