Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:43:28 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Cc: hrs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acroread 9 Message-ID: <200904101343.37355.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <d8a0b7620904100037se99c16bm1a6f5192e5bffff3@mail.gmail.com> References: <d8a0b7620904100037se99c16bm1a6f5192e5bffff3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 10 April 2009 03:37 am, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > Hi, > > I was pleasantly surprised to see the print/acroread9 port in the > ports-tree, and since > i have a couple of PDFs that evince doesn't handle entirely the way > it should, i gave the > port a shot on my 8.0-CURRENT system, especially considering the > recent linux_base > overhaul and all. > > The program started up perfectly rendering the first couple of > pages, and then within a > few seconds simply crashed out. A look at the console logs > unfortunately showed the > following message: > > linux: pid 78263 (acroread): syscall inotify_init not implemented > > In contrary to Acroread 8 (which does run properly) it looks like > Acroread 9 actually uses > the Linux inotify system. The port therefore is unfortunately of > not much use as long as > this subsystem of syscalls isn't mapped to its freebsd equivalent. > > I guess it couldn't hurt to mark the port as non-functionial until > this has been resolved, and > opted to put emulation@ on cc on this since i am curious what would > need to be done in > order to get this fixed. To my understanding Linux' inotify system > shares similarities with > FreeBSD's kqueue system and i wonder if a bridge of some sorts > could be established here. It is a known problem: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090401175638.GA31233 Jung-uk Kim
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