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From: zellis@panix.com (Brian Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 1.x and Netscape
Date: 9 Dec 1994 01:18:34 -0500
Organization: Zellis Consulting
Lines: 89
Message-ID: <3c8srq$io8@panix3.panix.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com
Keywords: Netscape, FreeBSD
Netscape is such a cool must-have piece of software that I had to have
it on my FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 system. If you've tried that, you may notice
that the binary distribution of netscape for unknown-bsd almost works,
but dumps core on a bad system call. It turns out that the bad system
calls are stat() and fstat() which have new IDs under 4.4Lite. I have
a very short patch to 1.x kernels that works around the problem.
Here's what you have to do:
1. in /sys/kern :
apply the patch
make init_sysent.c (to rebuild the syscall table)
2. clean out kern object files from your compile directory :
rm /sys/compile/YOUR_MACHINE_NAME/kern*.o
3. rebuild your kernel and reboot
Now, if only I could get Netscape to quit complaining about undefined
keysyms (yes, I read the documentation and MCOM's suggested fix doesn't
work).
-brian
___ Brian Ellis
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*** syscalls.master
--- syscalls.master
***************
*** 265,270 ****
185 UNIMPL 0 nosys
186 UNIMPL 0 nosys
187 UNIMPL 0 nosys
! 188 UNIMPL 0 nosys
! 189 UNIMPL 0 nosys
190 UNIMPL 0 nosys
--- 265,270 ----
185 UNIMPL 0 nosys
186 UNIMPL 0 nosys
187 UNIMPL 0 nosys
! 188 STD 2 ostat
! 189 STD 2 ofstat
190 UNIMPL 0 nosys
*** kern_descrip.c Thu Dec 8 23:34:06 1994
--- kern_descrip.c Fri Dec 9 00:51:25 1994
***************
*** 401,406 ****
--- 401,415 ----
return (error);
}
+ int
+ ofstat(p, uap, retval)
+ struct proc *p;
+ register struct fstat_args *uap;
+ int *retval;
+ {
+ return fstat(p, uap, retval);
+ }
+
/*
* Allocate a file descriptor for the process.
*/
*** vfs_syscalls.c
--- vfs_syscalls.c
***************
*** 1116,1121 ****
--- 1116,1130 ----
return (error);
}
+ int
+ ostat(p, uap, retval)
+ struct proc *p;
+ register struct stat_args *uap;
+ int *retval;
+ {
+ return stat(p, uap, retval);
+ }
+
/*
* Lstat system call.
* This version does not follow links.