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Subject: Re: Acroread 9
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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