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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #102408
  2. Comment #87

Comment 87 for bug 102408

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In , Ventnor-bugzilla (ventnor-bugzilla) wrote :

So this is the culprit?
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/nsprpub/pr/src/md/unix/uxproces.c#263

How exactly do you trigger this? I thought download code used GIO or GnomeVFS now to spawn processes.

Is there any valid case for wanting to keep the file descriptors open after a fork? I was thinking that, in that function ForkAndExec(), if attr is null then I close the fds. karl, thoughts?