Call for testing: patch that helps Wine on 6.x

[Kris Moore]

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?

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Kris Moore
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