Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 9:51:34 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) Cc: yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: netscape on 1.1.5? Message-ID: <9502281651.AA07691@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199502280805.JAA04182@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> from "Lars Koeller" at Feb 28, 95 09:05:14 am
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> > And here are the patches to 1.1.x to make netscape run on it: > > ========================================================================= > > ] Brian Ellis (zellis@panix.com) writes: > ] > ] Netscape is such a cool must-have piece of software that I had to have > ] it on my FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 system. If you've tried that, you may notice > ] that the binary distribution of netscape for unknown-bsd almost works, > ] but dumps core on a bad system call. It turns out that the bad system > ] calls are stat() and fstat() which have new IDs under 4.4Lite. I have > ] a very short patch to 1.x kernels that works around the problem. Brian also wrote another patch for lstat. Apparently this is needed to enable the use of the file: directive. It is in the news group archives on minnie. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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