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Subject: Re: Call for testing: patch that helps Wine on 6.x
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On Friday 13 July 2007 20:08:59 Volker wrote:
> On 07/11/07 20:42, John Baldwin wrote:
>> This patch attempts to remove a gross hack with a slightly less
>> gross hack in order to avoid clobbering data in signal info that
>> Wine needs.  In 7 this was fixed by a major change to how the kernel
>> manages signals internally, and that change is too large to be
>> MFC'd, hence this lighter weight patch.  It has already been tested
>> by the folks working on Wine, but I would like a bit more widespread
>> testing before I commit it.  Please test this patch and let me know
>> if anything breaks.  Note that this patch is only for i386.
>> 
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sig_eva.patch
> 
> I've patched and recompiled world + kernel using your patch. I can
> confirm it does not hurt but what does it good (my wine already ran
> fine despite some DDE and performance issues)? What to look for
> especially - any specific test procedures?

Could you try Mozilla Firefox (for Windows) with and without this
patch?