nss and pthreads and wine, oh my!

[Craig Boston]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 08:50 am, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> One other thing.  When you are building wine, can you search its
> sources for ldt_keeper.c or something like that?  It may need
> a patch to work with libthr and libkse.  You can see similar
> patches for mplayer and libxine which both have an ldt_keeper.c
> with comments saying it is taken from wine.

Hmm, ok, I'll have to warn you though, the wine source tree is pretty much the 
only thing other than gcc that I find more intimidating than libc/threads :)

Wine doesn't have an ldt_keeper.c file.  The only file I could find that 
actually calls i386_set_ldt is libs/wine/ldt.c, which seems to be keeping its 
own table of which LDTs have been used.  Strange -- usually the kernel 
complains about processes that don't use allocate them dynamically but wine 
doesn't seem to trigger that warning.

Despite the claims of the mplayer patch, I was unable to find LDT_AUTO_ALLOC 
anywhere in the wine sources.

Oh, just for reference, neither of the machines in question are using the 
nvidia driver.

Craig