Re: rvplayer solution/hack with newer kernels

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jaakko_Hyv=E4tti?= (Jaakko.Hyvatti@eunet.fi)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 07:37:14 +0200 (EET)


I tried to post this to realforum@real.com, a public discussion list of
RealNetworks software:

> There is a bug in linux rvplayer 5.0, at least up to 5.0.0.45, where
>the sound device is opened in O_NONBLOCK mode. Recent Linux 2.1 kernels,
>and the shortly upcoming 2.2, include a bugfix to the sound drivers that
>exposes this realplayer bug.
>
> I have seen a binary patch for 5.0.0.35 version, but not yet for
>5.0.0.45, so I came up with this:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=702554
>
> I hope this helps someone.

Funny thing was they did not seem to care to make my fix public:

>[Thanks Jaakko! I'll pass this info along to Player Support and to our
>Unix Player developers. Appreciated, --Merritt]
>
>Dear RealForum subscriber,
>
>Your message posted to the RealForum has been declined.
....

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