302857 - Crash on startup if /dev/zero is not WRITEable

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70235

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adrian Ulrich]

Firefox (1.0.6) crashes on startup if it cannot *write* to /dev/zero.

Mozilla (1.7.10) works just fine in this case.
(See Bug 245999 and 70235 , looks like they got fixed for Mozilla ?!)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 # su root -c "chmod 444 /dev/zero"
 $ firefox
 -> Segfault

Workaround: chmod 666 /dev/zero :-/

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Hey, why did you file as NEW :)? As you noted, this is a dupe of Bug 70235, Bug
70235 is in Product Core, so that bug applies to all products.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70235 ***

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

BTW: Why 1.7.10 does not crash, i cannot explain to you, but i'm sure it has not
been fixed :). As said Bug 70235 is a Core issue and Mozilla 1.7.10 and Firefox
1.0.6 use exactly the same Core code.

Comment 3

[Adrian Ulrich]

> Hey, why did you file as NEW :)? 

Because i didn't think its a duplicate of the other 2 bugs ;-)

IMHO 70235 was fixed because this didn't happen with mozilla. Thats why i
created a new Bugreport.

BTW: 70235 is about 4 years old :-/