Closed Bug 414841 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

file descriptors incorrectly shared launching helper applications?

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147659

People

(Reporter: walters, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012810 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012810 Minefield/3.0b3pre

[minefield bug]

Hi, I just downloaded two files.  One is a shell script (NetBeans installer).  The second is a PDF file.  Now, when I was trying to manipulate the shell script, I got a strange error (Text File busy).

Looking at things, it appeared the PDF viewer (Evince) had a file descriptor open on the downloaded shell script.  

My random guess here is that Firefox isn't closing open file descriptors when it forks helper applications.  Thus, since the PDF launcher was started before the shell script was done downloading, it possibly inherited the open file descriptor from Firefox?


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Not sure about reproducibility.
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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