OK, we're getting somewhere - the libc5 and glibc versions behave
differently. Hooray.
I tried downloading libc5 Netscape direct from Netscape, or the mirror
at
ftp://ftp.the.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_libc5/
I then fortified it and ran it on my Redhat 6.0 system with my little
circle applet. It still crashes/hangs after dragging along a lot,
although with the libc5 system it doesn't chew 100% cpu and responds
to normal kill signals. glibc chewed 100% CPU and required signal 9 to
kill.
The Mandrake RPM version runs more or less like the libc5 version does
for me for Java. The Mandrake version also seems to have a bug where
you can't press escape to stop loading a page, which is awfully annoying.
So I'm still without a reliable Netscape for Java, but at least the
crashes aren't as bad.
I think the real solution is for Netscape to statically link a build
of Netscape 4.61. Yeah, it's ugly, but maybe it'd at least work. Maybe
the X libraries could be dynamically linked on the hope it's the C or
C++ libraries that are the problem.
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