Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

[Peter Jones]

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.

-- 
         Peter

Computers don't make errors.  What they do, they do on purpose.
		-- Dale