Linuxulator: Unbreak Mozilla, Firefox and RealPlayer

From: Intron is my alias on the Internet <mag_at_intron.ac>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:12:10 +0800
Debugging is somewhat MUCH MORE DIFFICULT than rewriting.

Here is the minimum patch that can only unbreak Mozilla 1.7.12 (GTK 1),
Firefox 1.0.7 and RealPlayer 10.0.7.785 (playing video)
(sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16).

It doesn't mean problems of clone(2) have been fixed. Actually, clone(2),
set_thread_area(2) and get_thread_area(2) are mis-interpreted.

Adobe Reader 7.0.8 hasn't been completely unbroken yet. Problems around
it seem to be more complicated.

My patch (against /sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c of CVS revision 1.53):

http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/linux_machdep.c.1.53.diff


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