John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 02:08:59 pm Volker wrote: >> On 07/11/07 20:42, John Baldwin wrote: >>> This patch attempts to remove a gross hack with a slightly less gross hack >>> in >>> order to avoid clobbering data in signal info that Wine needs. In 7 this >>> was >>> fixed by a major change to how the kernel manages signals internally, and >>> that change is too large to be MFC'd, hence this lighter weight patch. It >>> has already been tested by the folks working on Wine, but I would like a >>> bit >>> more widespread testing before I commit it. Please test this patch and let >>> me know if anything breaks. Note that this patch is only for i386. >>> >>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sig_eva.patch >>> >> John, >> >> I've patched and recompiled world + kernel using your patch. I can >> confirm it does not hurt but what does it good (my wine already ran >> fine despite some DDE and performance issues)? What to look for >> especially - any specific test procedures? > > I'm not as familiar with what it fixes for wine, but it fixes one part of > the siginfo for signals to not contain garbage. >
I've been testing it along with the 6-signal patch on the wiki.freebsd.org/Wine page. I think the signal patch is the more critical one, which fixes a lot of wine's past woes. Did you need people to test that one as well? -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
