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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] nspluginwrapper should exclude native x86_64 plugins from wrapping</H1>
<B>Florian Hubold</B>
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<I>Wed Oct 12 12:39:14 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Am 12.10.2011 12:29, schrieb Pascal Terjan:
><i> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:24, Florian Hubold<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">doktor5000 at arcor.de</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> Hey there,
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</I>>><i> currently nspluginwrapper tries to wrap x86_64 plugins (like native x86_64
</I>>><i> flash player plugin), but there is only i386 npviewer which is needed to run
</I>>><i> the plugins.
</I>><i> I'm quite sure we used to have the x86-64 version too
</I>Well, seems not from looking at the history of our nspluginwrapper. Also seems
Mandrivas SVN history
got wiped out and so we can only look in changelog, nothing obvious about
x86_64 npviewer there.
Do you have any links?
>><i> You can see the problem from the following output, which are a
</I>>><i> more verbose form of the scripts run through nspluginwrapper filetrigger:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> $ nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
</I>>><i> *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR:
</I>>><i> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
</I>>><i> nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for
</I>>><i> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> In my and Anssi's opinion, nspluginwrapper.script (from nspluginwrapper
</I>>><i> filetrigger,
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/nspluginwrapper/current/SOURCES/nspluginwrapper.script?view=markup">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/nspluginwrapper/current/SOURCES/nspluginwrapper.script?view=markup</A>
</I>>><i> ) should be modified by excluding /usr/lib64. BTW the scripts run during is
</I>>><i> nspluginwrapper installation/removal get it right by only using /usr/lib:
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/nspluginwrapper/current/SPECS/nspluginwrapper.spec?view=markup">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/nspluginwrapper/current/SPECS/nspluginwrapper.spec?view=markup</A>
</I>>><i> Anybody more knowledgeable on nspluginwrapper care to share his opinion, or
</I>>><i> are there other reasons for objections?
</I>><i> It used to be a good way to separate plugin execution into another
</I>><i> process which is good for security/stability but browsers include that
</I>><i> feature now
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Also are there good reasons to still use nspluginwraper for flash player at
</I>>><i> all, as all current browser support out-of-thread execution of plugins and
</I>>><i> flash-player-plugin is available as native i586 and x86_64 plugins?
</I>><i> Indeed it is now less useful
</I>Can i take that as +1 to exclude flash-player-plugin from wrapping?
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