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Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-12.sprintlink.net!wellspring.us.dg.com!dg-rtp.dg.com!ponds.uucp!newshost.unx.sas.com!torpid.unx.sas.com!sastdr From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: Wine960928 crashed FreeBSD 2.1.5 Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events) Message-ID: <E07Knq.7A9@unx.sas.com> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:23:50 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: torpid.unx.sas.com References: <32762988.167EB0E7@watermarkgroup.com> <slrn57ghru.7i.hanspbie@zerium.idgonline.no> Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:5894 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30644 In article <slrn57ghru.7i.hanspbie@zerium.idgonline.no> hanspbie@idgonline.no (Hans Petter Bieker) writes: >On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:58:00 -0500, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> wrote: >>Wine crashes my machine whenever I try to do "wine -help", or try to >>run any non-existing file. It seemed that the CPU reset without any >>panicking message. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it unique to >>FreeBSD? How does wine crash the system without causing a panic? > >If wine crashes you system runing non-root, then you system is bugy. This >should not be possible anyway. > Ah... but remember to run Wine the operating system has to "hand over" the LDT to a user-mode program (essentially throwing out the baby with the bath water.) On most systems, this type of operation isn't something that is normally done, much less done on purpose. Wine, for instance, could accidently create LDTs that would totally scramble things and begin writing all over real memory - crashing whatever operating system lie beneath it. - Dave Rivers - -- Yoiks and Away!