Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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On 11/19/2010 12:31 PM, İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 11/19/2010 12:01 PM, İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
> > > <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > El 19/11/10 13:46, İsmail Dönmez escribió:
> > > >
> > > > > Breaking flash player because glibc does some optimizations is
> > > > > unacceptable imho.
> > > >
> > > > Having to use a permanently buggy propietary software since we have no
> > > > alternative is what is unnaceptable.
> > > >
> > > > Please read Linus' comments too. We shouldn't be
> > > > > breaking things that works.
> > > >
> > > > what part of the manual isn't clear ?
> > >
> > > Users don't care about programming manuals. You are just breaking
> > > stuff that works and that what they'll see: A broken flash player.
> > > Another solution is to patch Flash Player so that memcpy is replaced
> > > by memmove. I am not sure how legal is that though.
> >
> > Patching is a no-no, but LD_PRELOAD could probably be used to override it.
>
> Hmmpf that means any browser using the plugin should LD_PRELOAD our
> memcpy.so, not a bad idea even if we only do it for
> Firefox/Chrome/Konqueror.

Not necessarily. You might not have the browser as a whole do it - you
could have e.g. flashplayer wrapped in a script to do it.

I haven't investigated all the the details as I'm not going to be the
one doing the work - I just wanted to comment that the infrastructure is
there to do it.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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