> Il giorno 22 mar 2020, alle ore 08:45, Landry Breuil <lan...@openbsd.org> ha
> scritto:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Andrea Biscuola wrote:
>> Hi ports@
>>
>> I switched to firefox recently, because with chromium, hangouts screen
>> sharing
>> doesn't work at all and I need it for work.
>>
>> While testing Firefox screen sharing in hangouts, pledge kills it with:
>> "/bsd: firefox[43476]: pledge "", syscall 289"
>>
>> The syscall itself is shmget(2). Running hangouts with pledge disabled in
>> firefox
>> works fine (I can share the screen without problems).
>
> Honestly, i never really tried screen sharing, not expecting it to work
> at all - good to know it can work in some conditions !
The most stupid thing is chromium not coping well with rhe goole services
>>
>> I tried to see how to solve the situation without disabling pledge. I
>> modified the
>> kernel to include shmget(2), shmat(2), shmctl(2) and shmdt(2) in the stdio
>> set
>> and now, screen sharing works.
>
> Good luck trying to get an shm pledge class :)
>
> In the meantime, i'd just advise you to disable pledge in firefox.
As semarie@ wrote, I'll just disable pledge for firefox. The shm functions are
not well accepted on OpenBSD.
In the end, what I dis was just an experiment, but as I said, I already sent
the message when I fully understood the implications.
Thank you and regards.
Andrea
