nspluginwrapper patch for testing

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Thu Aug 6 16:52:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:10:37PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:15:10 Sean C. Farley wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> >> On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:14:10 Boris Samorodov wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:59:21 +0200 Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> >>>> Can this be committed before the 8.0 ports freeze?
> >>>
> >>> According to the list this solution appears to be helpful,
> >>> so the answer is "yes" (or rather "should").
> >>>
> >>> Can you provide a commit log?
> >>
> >> Limit the stack size for plugins. Linux glibc threading behaves 
> >> slightly differently with a smaller stack size and the Flash plugins 
> >> rely on this behaviour.
> >>
> >> Suggested by:   dchagin
> >> Patch by:       nox
> > 
> > Also, it helps for running Google Earth.  Until I limited the stack size 
> > for it, it would crash if I zoomed in too close to the Earth.  It still 
> > crashes for me when exiting Google Earth, but I am able to live with 
> > that.  This is when running on i386 7-STABLE with the Nvidia driver 
> > v185.18.29.
> 
> You mean a similar patch should applied to the google-earth port?

Yup, helps here too (I no longer need the cpuset -l 0 I reported here,
	http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090412201428.GA67309
), so I committed it:
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/astro/google-earth/files/patch-stacksize

 Thanx! :)
	Juergen


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