[Enigmail] xulrunner-ipc leaves file descriptors open in child process?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 03/23/2009 04:58 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> The problem is that IPC relies on standard Mozilla platform
> functionality for executing files. Unfortunately the platform always
> passes all file descriptors to the child process and doesn't allow to
> specify different behavior. I was already trying to implement
> workarounds for it, but I haven't found anything apart from either
> fixing Mozilla or re-implementing the complete functionality to execute
> files within IPC. Unfortunately I'm not good enough at these low-level
> operations, especially as you have to do it differently for Windows,
> Unix, and other OSes.

Yuck.  That does sound like a hairy problem.  I'm glad it's on your
radar, but i'm afraid i don't have any constructive technical approach
to offer (you're way more experienced with this stuff than i am).

Have you raised the concern anywhere in bugzilla?  I'd happily +1 any
relevant bug if you point me to it, for whatever that's worth.

Thanks for all your work on this, Patrick.

Regards,

	--dkg

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