From: Evan Broder Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:55:27 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Add IcedTea FIFO bug to project ideas - this could be a good, simple task for someone... X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/commitdiff_plain/0a5b05936c7256274a886b048bec7704d6bf3fa5 Add IcedTea FIFO bug to project ideas - this could be a good, simple task for someone at Hackasaurus who knows Java. --- diff --git a/projects/ideas.mdwn b/projects/ideas.mdwn index 6270cad..9457628 100644 --- a/projects/ideas.mdwn +++ b/projects/ideas.mdwn @@ -209,6 +209,16 @@ _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