Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:21:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386_set_ldt warnings Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10310230116360.6338-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031023130154.K3378@gamplex.bde.org>
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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
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