LDT entries and WINE and Threads..

[Julian Elischer]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 08.07.2003 at 14:06:51 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > I'm looking at this and I think that my interpretation is that 
> > WINE, under FreeBSD, blindly allocates LDT entries starting at location 17,
> > without looking to see if they are in use already..
> > [...] 
> > comments?
> 
> This is not really your problem and not really related to LDT (I think),
> but WINE is not 100% functional on FreeBSD anyway.
> 
> Just cd to WRKSRC and do a 'gmake test' (and watch Wine deadlock three
> times)
> 
> I know that you have things far more important to look at, but I would
> be cool if you could give me a clue to what is going on there.
> 

I wouldn't know where to begin.. I just want to make sure that if
We use LDT entries in the threads package that we don't
clobber wine and visa versa..



> Cheers!
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