Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:19, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:02:06 -0400 John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 16 June 2006 14:25, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> > > > dmitry> doesn't crash/hang anything, it just gives the
> > > > dmitry> possibility to use this combination.
> > > >
> > > > This patch is somewhat redundant.  Adding
> > > >
> > > > 	__weak_reference(dlsym, _dlsym);
> > > >
> > > > is enough.
> > > 
> > >   Indeed, this also works for me. It would be nice to see this
> > > trivial addition committed.
> > 
> > I agree.  Do you have the __weak_reference() patch handy?
> 
> I know that this patch, by itself, does not break anything in the base
> system. It gives the possibility to use native Mozilla-based browsers
> with linux-flashplugin7. It eases the task of integrating them.
> But not always adding a feature leads to the desired results. Flash7
> DOES hang a lot when used with native Mozilla. Denying this isn't the
> right thing to do, it will hit lots of users.
> There are not as many reports as someone would expect because the patch
> is not applied (yet) mainstream. Usually, if you offer a feature in a
> software product, users tend to use it.
> In this specific case I'd go for the solution of a separate library
> used with LD_PRELOAD by Mozilla proposed by Marcus Alves Grando.
> In the end, it's a matter of decision.

A separate LD_PRELOAD library for a single weak symbol seems
excessive.  It also does not enable flash automatically, users
still have to conciously choose to install the port. :)

-- 
John Baldwin