WINE vs. FreeBSD

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Saturday, 22. July 2006 21:20, Kip Macy wrote:
>> Thanks for your input.
>>
>> The relative merits of the different threading libraries is currently
>> under discussion. Could you also try it with libthr (it may not work
>> at all), I'd like to hear what happens. Thanks.
>
> WINE crashes in roughly the same spot. This is however with a libthr on
> FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p2, which is nothing short of disastrous (with a global
> lib mapping from libpthread to libthr, about 1/3 of all the programs in my
> default KDE session start at all - the rest hangs in state sbwait).

I think it is because WINE stomps on or TLS.  Nothing we can
do about that except patch wine so it doesn't.  Look at the
console messages for:

   Warning: pid XXX used static ldt allocation

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