NVidia glx stuff dies in sysarch(I386_SET_LDT, ...)

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Fri Aug 1 16:25:34 PDT 2003


On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > That's what I was worried about.  Once an application or
> > library is written to use specific LDTs, you never know
> > how it will be affected by the use of threading libraries
> > (or other libraries using threads).
> > 
> > I can see the need to keep the old behavoir for compatibility's
> > sake.
> 
> How about we complain loudly on the console when it's done..
> (for the first few times) 
> (with info on how to do it right)

And make a new interface, changing the prototype in the
header file, so old uses of it fail to compile???

-- 
Dan Eischen



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