Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:37:19 +0200 From: Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com> To: hrs@FreeBSD.org Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Acroread 9 Message-ID: <d8a0b7620904100037se99c16bm1a6f5192e5bffff3@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I was pleasantly surprised to see the print/acroread9 port in the ports-tree, and since i have a couple of PDFs that evince doesn't handle entirely the way it should, i gave the port a shot on my 8.0-CURRENT system, especially considering the recent linux_base overhaul and all. The program started up perfectly rendering the first couple of pages, and then within a few seconds simply crashed out. A look at the console logs unfortunately showed the following message: linux: pid 78263 (acroread): syscall inotify_init not implemented In contrary to Acroread 8 (which does run properly) it looks like Acroread 9 actually uses the Linux inotify system. The port therefore is unfortunately of not much use as long as this subsystem of syscalls isn't mapped to its freebsd equivalent. I guess it couldn't hurt to mark the port as non-functionial until this has been resolved, and opted to put emulation@ on cc on this since i am curious what would need to be done in order to get this fixed. To my understanding Linux' inotify system shares similarities with FreeBSD's kqueue system and i wonder if a bridge of some sorts could be established here. With kind regards, Pascal Hofstee
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