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

From: Daniel Eischen <eischen_at_vigrid.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:22:31 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Perhaps we need to rethink the interface and disallow specification
> > of any ldt; only allow dynamic.  We would need a different method of
> > setting an array of them, though.
> 
> I think that for now we can allow anything over 6 because we are not a
> BSDI binary.

That's a quick fix, yes.  But I still think we should put
things in place to disallow this and favor the dynamic
ldt creation.  I can only see it rearing its ugly head
at some point in the future when our thread libraries
get more widespread use.

-- 
Dan Eischen
Received on Fri Aug 01 2003 - 14:22:36 UTC

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