From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 28 11:58:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA00996 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:58:20 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00989 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:58:17 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA07691; Tue, 28 Feb 95 09:51:34 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502281651.AA07691@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: netscape on 1.1.5? To: uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 9:51:34 MST Cc: yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502280805.JAA04182@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> from "Lars Koeller" at Feb 28, 95 09:05:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.