From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 16:33:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 1226E16A4D1 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (ns.bitdefender.com [217.156.83.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108EC43D48 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:33:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: (qmail 32577 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Jun 2006 19:33:46 +0300 Received: from apircalabu.dsd.ro (10.10.15.22) by mail.bitdefender.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2006 19:33:46 +0300 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:33:46 +0300 From: Adi Pircalabu To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20060614193346.3addcbad@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> References: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> Organization: BitDefender X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.3 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender Qmail 1.6.2 on mail.bitdefender.com X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: 1.1.4 049000040111AAAAAAE X-BitDefender-Spam: No (0) Cc: "current@freebsd.org" 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, 14 Jun 2006 16:33:50 -0000 On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:57:50 +0200 Ivan Voras wrote: > There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in > FreeBSD, described here: > > http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html I think there's a more reasonable way to use linux-flashplugin7, by using it with linux-[your-browser-here] from ports. IMO THE way surely is a FreeBSD native version of that plugin from Macromedia. > It involves patching the rtld with this patch: > > http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff > > I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't > look like it's going to break anything (though not much software > depends on it :) ) - can it be committed to current and releng_6? I can crash or hang native Firefox / Mozilla / Seamonkey & linux-flashplugin7 in less than 3 minutes. I think the commiters are smart enough to NOT give everyone the possibility of doing the same. Unless, of course, you will volunteer to manage the enormous quantity or up-coming bug-reports :) -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/