87478 - Mozilla loads .nfs* files in plugins/ directory

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97362

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Brian Ristuccia]

See bug #87446. This will bite someone in the ass if the plugins directory is on
NFS, and they have a plugin that crashes mozilla. Any lingering mozilla-bin
processes left around will hold the plugin file open, resulting in it being
renamed something like .nfs0038483d000000c5. When they start a freash copy of
mozilla, the .nfs file will be loaded as a plugin.

Loading only files that don't start with '.' unless they also end in '.so' would
be a good solution. Explicitly ignoring all '.' files or even just '.nfs' ones
would be a decent solution too.

Comment 1

[Christian Reis]

I've just been bitten by this when verifying a tcl plugin bug, it does happen.
Andrei, I've also noticed we try and load .class files (such as the Flash
plugin). I wonder if we could simply limit loading .so files, and avoiding the
error messages?

This is a problem for any QA person using NFS and testing plugins, right now.

Comment 2

[Christian Reis]

going to dupe against bug 97362 since it's the same general subject and has more
developed discussion + patches.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97362 ***

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"