Ar Mer, 2006-09-13 am 17:25 -0700, ysgrifennodd Zachary Amsden:
> that makes use of APM or PnP facilities. There is the possibility
> however, that such a program could sleep, run the idle thread, which
> makes a call into some of these BIOS facilities, and then reschedules
> the same program thread - which means FS/GS never get reloaded, thus
> maintaining their corrupted values. It is worth fixing, just not a high
> priority. I had a patch that fixed both APM and PnP at one time, but it
> is covered with mold and now looks like a science experiment. Shall I
> apply disinfectant?
I think that would be useful, or just post up the mouldy one for someone
else to rework. If someone is hitting that kind of bug its going to be
pretty horrible to track down.
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