From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 01:41:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD1916A479; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from publicd.ub.mng.net (publicd.ub.mng.net [202.179.0.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59EED43D4C; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:41:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from [202.179.0.164] (helo=[192.168.0.18]) by publicd.ub.mng.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Fsri5-000NXy-AX; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:40:49 +0900 Message-ID: <4498A387.3070604@micom.mng.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:40:23 +0900 From: Ganbold User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adi Pircalabu References: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> <20060616211540.D37640@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <200606201002.07695.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060620181916.732dbc5c@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <20060620181916.732dbc5c@apircalabu.dsd.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Hajimu UMEMOTO , Ivan Voras , Marcus Alves Grando , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dmitry Pryanishnikov Subject: Re: Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:41:03 -0000 This patch makes my native Firefox-1.5.0.4 hang when I go to www.fifaworldcup.com site. # uname -an FreeBSD daemon.micom.mng.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #3: Fri Jun 16 12:00:54 ULAST 2006 root@gdaemon.micom.mng.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GDAEMON i386 Ganbold Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:02:06 -0400 John Baldwin wrote: > > >> On Friday 16 June 2006 14:25, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: >>> >>>> dmitry> doesn't crash/hang anything, it just gives the >>>> dmitry> possibility to use this combination. >>>> >>>> This patch is somewhat redundant. Adding >>>> >>>> __weak_reference(dlsym, _dlsym); >>>> >>>> is enough. >>>> >>> Indeed, this also works for me. It would be nice to see this >>> trivial addition committed. >>> >> I agree. Do you have the __weak_reference() patch handy? >> > > I know that this patch, by itself, does not break anything in the base > system. It gives the possibility to use native Mozilla-based browsers > with linux-flashplugin7. It eases the task of integrating them. > But not always adding a feature leads to the desired results. Flash7 > DOES hang a lot when used with native Mozilla. Denying this isn't the > right thing to do, it will hit lots of users. > There are not as many reports as someone would expect because the patch > is not applied (yet) mainstream. Usually, if you offer a feature in a > software product, users tend to use it. > In this specific case I'd go for the solution of a separate library > used with LD_PRELOAD by Mozilla proposed by Marcus Alves Grando. > In the end, it's a matter of decision. > >