On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's harmless.
>
> It's really a warning that says: the mm that you allocated a new LDT for
> may have multiple users, and while the LDT is added to all of them, we
> don't guarantee _when_ the other users will actually see the LDT.
>
> It so happens that the other users are probably just something like
> "top" or similar, that increment the MM count to make sure that the MM
> doesn't go away while they get information about the process. And those
> users don't care about the LDT in the least.
xmms with the xmms-avi (or avi-xmms?) plugin reproduces the message each
and every time xmms starts up.
Simon-
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