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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:25:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: NVidia glx stuff dies in sysarch(I386_SET_LDT, ...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10308011923560.321-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308011619000.46065-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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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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