Bug 17984

Forgot to mention I tested this on my 3.4-stable machine and the Linux
Acrobat4 now runs stable,
no coredumps anymore

W/

Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn 2000-04-17 09:27:03 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The change is alrady in effect in 4.0-RELEASE and in 5.0-CURRENT. 
It probably doesn't make sense to change this so late in the  
RELENG_3 lifecycle. 

I bumped into this problem yesterday, just after upgrading Acrobat
to 4.05 (Acrobat 4.0 didn't work as plug-in for linux-netscape).
I think that Sean's patch should have been applied to RELENG_3 before
closing this PR, since it does not depend on any of the
new features of RELENG_4 or HEAD, and it is a very simple patch.
Don't forget that the print/acroread4 port will be broken for 3.5-RELEASE
if this problem is not fixed for RELENG_3.

-- JMA

Comment 4 wilko 2000-04-24 15:22:56 UTC

State Changed
From-To: closed->open

I've exchanged private email with Marcel., the 'owner' of the 
Linuxulator. He told me he plans to fix the Linuxulator for this problem. 
But he is waiting for his network/machine infrastructure to arrive in his 
new home in Ca.  

The patch listed in this PR is not the right thing to do in general, a fix 
in the Linux compatibility code is. Until Marcel gets time to do his thing 
the patch will get you things like Acrobat4 working (it does for me).

Comment 5 wilko 2000-04-24 15:22:56 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->marcel

Marcel wants to fix this in the Linuxulator 

-On [20000418 16:15], Martin Cracauer (cracauer@cons.org) wrote:
>Personally, I will not maintain RELENG_3 anymore (and I don't have a
>3.x machine to test changes on anymore), but on the other side, I
>don't care about it either, so if you find a committer and agreement
>with Bruce, no "release line stability" objections from me.

Actually I am still maintaining RELENG_3 and I hated the fact that I
couldn't get more MFC's done. =(((

But trust me that I'll want to fix this bug since I am unable to view
PDFs on my 3.4-S box for some time now.  So its personal. ;)

I'll go test the patches/diffs from 4/5 on this box today and commit it
if that's ok with Bruce.

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In <20000621071720.H30672@lucifer.bart.nl>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: 
> -On [20000418 16:15], Martin Cracauer (cracauer@cons.org) wrote:
> >Personally, I will not maintain RELENG_3 anymore (and I don't have a
> >3.x machine to test changes on anymore), but on the other side, I
> >don't care about it either, so if you find a committer and agreement
> >with Bruce, no "release line stability" objections from me.
> 
> Actually I am still maintaining RELENG_3 and I hated the fact that I
> couldn't get more MFC's done. =(((
> 
> But trust me that I'll want to fix this bug since I am unable to view
> PDFs on my 3.4-S box for some time now.  So its personal. ;)

It is not a bug, but a policy.  The bug is that the Linux emulator
inherits FreeBSD's value for the default control word.

Having said this, I can only repeat that I think you can just change
3.x to default to masked exceptions.  Feedback on the issue in 4.x was
almost all positive and no applications that I am aware of (and I
watched) broke.

Martin
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Comment 8 Marcel Moolenaar 2000-07-18 05:13:29 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Patch applied. Thanks...