de-acroread8 not starting any more

[Roman Divacky]

> > > That's bad (for 2.6 emulation). This means there's some ind of problem
> > > with either 2.6 and/or f7. I don't think f7 is a problem (else the
> > > linux camp would have the same problem). So... I CC emulation@ for
> > > some more eyes for the problem.
> > 
> > I've got the same problem with RELENG_7/i386, Fedora 7,
> > compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.21.
> 
> 2.6.21 is not supported by us, 2.6.16 is targeted by the current work
> in the linuxulator, but there are some syscalls missing (see
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel and
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel/ltp for more).
 
the only "big" thing missing (as in - we dont event have patch for that)
is splice(), there's some work done by ssouhlal@ be it's been long forgotten
and rotting in p4.. any brave heart to pick this up? :)

> > $ truss acrodread8 :
> > [...]
> > linux_mprotect(0x1a000,0x1000,0x1,0x360,0x219176d8,0x6) = 0 (0x0)
> > munmap(0x20f73000,10515) = 0 (0x0)
> > linux_set_tid_address(0x21917768,0x2155dff4,0x1,0x21917720,0x2155ded0,0x6)
> > = 64114 (0xfa72)
> > <segfault>

DONT TRUST TRUSS... it's broken, not working and overall not worth it (debugging
linux binaries), it simply provides false results... use kdump.. this dump
is obviously wrong (set_tid_address takes only 1 param etc.)