On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On 11/17/2010 05:11 PM, nodata wrote: > > On 17/11/10 22:16, John Reiser wrote: > >> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > >>> 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except > >>> the vendor > >> > >> False. In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin > >> libflashplayer.so so that all its calls to memcpy become calls to memmove. > >> The change is to copy the .st_name field from the symbol for memmove to the > >> .st_name field of the symbol for memcpy, which creates another instance > >> of memmove. With that one 32-bit change, then the player will work. > >> Memmove can be a few percent slower than memcpy, but nobody will notice. > > > > Editing binaries is a bad idea and also breaks the packaging guidelines. > > > > rpm verification will also break. It sets a bad precedent. > > To be fair, we're not packaging flash in Fedora anyway. Adobe provides yum repos with flash plugin. OTOH, it doesn't seem to contain 64-bit flavour yet. -- Tomasz Torcz "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx wagon filled with backup tapes." -- Jim Gray -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
