Partially Unbreak Adobe Reader 7.0.8 for the New Linux Emulator

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz> (from Wed, 3 Jan  
2007 13:21:34 +0100):

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:47:28AM +0800, Intron is my alias on the   
> Internet wrote:
>>     My patch for /sys/compat/linux/linux_file.c (7.0-CURRENT) can
>> partially unbreak Adobe Reader 7.0.8 for Linux when the sysctl
>> compat.linux.osrelease is set to "2.6.16". You may download the patch
>> at:
>>
>>  http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/linux_file.c.diff
>
> this looks good. can you explain why this patch is not needed in 2.4  
>  emulation?
> I cannot imagine why this differs in 2.6 and 2.4...

FC4 (glibc) behaves differently based upon the version of the emulated  
kernel. Either acroread uses a part of glibc which behaves  
differently, or acroread checks the version and behaves differently  
too. Either way: I'm not surprised. ;-)

Bye,
Alexander.

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