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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: i386_set_ldt warnings
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, C. Kukulies wrote:
> >
> > > Some (kde) applications now have a warning appear in xconsole:
> > >
> > > Warning: pid 595 used static ldt allocation.
> > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> > > Warning: pid 596 used static ldt allocation.
> > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> > >
> > > Should I worry about that? Rebuild KDE?
> >
> > Let me guess.  You are using Nividia-supplied drivers/libraries?
> 
> I get these from an old version of wine.  I gave details of why wine
> would break if static ldt allocation were removed when removing it
> was proposed.

I think we didn't care so much about wine because it could be
fixed in source to use dynamic ldt allocation.

> > Do they supply source or is it binary only?
> 
> It is effectively binary only, since current versions of wine don't
> run my application correctly and the old version doesn't build under
> -current.

Hmm, well one supposes that it could be made to build under
-current.

The messages really are harmless if threading (libkse, libthr)
is not used or if the static ldt allocations happen before
the threads library starts allocating ldts.

-- 
Dan Eischen