On 14 Apr at 15:05, Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 02:48:27PM +0100, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > > > > > I would be happy to try any diagnostics that might help pin this > > > down. > > > > And I offer the same. > > Perhaps if there is an OS X box running VRPC at Wakefield, we'll be > able to look.
Regrettably I cannot assist as me and my portable Mac OS Box will be out of the country. But if nothing else is available, I could subsequently bring mine over to a knowledgeable person who lives within 50 miles of Windsor. > But my understanding is that VRPC uses an egregious > hack for its networking (proxying SWIs, where RPCemu provides an > emulated NIC that the host routers), which could cause all sorts of > excitement given NetSurf does its own resolving, and uses the > environment variable that tells it which server to use, which may not > exist or may change if NetSurf queries it before the networking on the > OS X side has finished connecting, or if there's some race in the VRPC > hack. > > Basically, there are hundreds of possibilities, and it's not going to > be easy to work it out without physical access. > > Perhaps VirtualAcorn would be interested in loaning a copy of their > software to a developer with access to OS X? (I don't.) > > Alternatively, does anybody know if the same issues happens with > RPCemu under OS X? Only a week ago I gave RPCEmu another thrash under OS X. But I got nowhere as networking is not available for this emulation (see <http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/>) and also nothing I did would port any RISC OS software to that emulator. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
