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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:50:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        rdivacky@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi+k@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: flash9 checklist (was: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <200810302250.m9UMoHpl014714@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081029152314.GA34205@freebsd.org>
References:  <200810280859.24048@aldan> <20081028181731.GA30591@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20081028205634.GA93288@freebsd.org> <20081029162105.18469pltiqtoqmao@webmail.leidinger.net>

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In article <20081029152314.GA34205@freebsd.org> you write:
>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:21:05PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 28 Oct 2008  
>> 21:56:34 +0100):
>> 
>> >On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
>> 
>> >>3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc .
>> >
>> >the linux-firefox script should check for /proc being mounted. It's not
>> >a hard thing to do...  any takers? :)
>> 
>> Is it needed for plain linux-firefox? If not, it should not check for  
>> it. I don't object to extend the script to check for linuxprocfs if  
>> some trigger file (flashplugin.so in the correct location?) exists.
>
>if I understood it correctly it reads something needed for threading
>to work correctly from /proc,

iirc it reads (/compat/linux)/proc/<pid>/maps (in chunks, which didn't
work with the old code.)

> we can expect problems in future
>when people dont mount linprocfs..
>
>maybe we should put some checks into linuxulator... 

 Or if we put something in browser startup scripts it also needs to
be in the native ones since those can use linux flash via wrappers
as well.

 Just mentioning...
	Juergen



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