X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/5e0fedf356af31b267b237bd98a4e8adb32c7deb..25b9ed81143a6f3dbdcb173442ed9916d1757253:/projects/ideas.mdwn diff --git a/projects/ideas.mdwn b/projects/ideas.mdwn index 9457628..6270cad 100644 --- a/projects/ideas.mdwn +++ b/projects/ideas.mdwn @@ -209,16 +209,6 @@ _Contact: xavid_ _Contact: xavid_ -## Fix AFS support in IcedTea - -The [IcedTea](http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page) open-source Java plugin currently [doesn't support having users with AFS homedirs](http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166). The plugin creates a pair of sockets in your homedir that are used to communicate between the applet viewer and the browser plugin. Since AFS doesn't support FIFOs, this fails. - -It should be relatively simple to patch both the applet viewer and the browser plugin to simply use `/tmp`, or possibly fall back on `/tmp` if opening the FIFO in `$HOME` doesn't work - just find all the places in the code those paths get used. - -(See also [the bug we filed](http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=312), which lists a couple more paths to look for) - -_Contact: broder, debathena_ - ## Your Project Here SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and