On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:04:50 +0200
Jean-Francois Dockes <[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as I know, recoll only uses its own (and stale) copy of
> xdg-open if the system one is not found in the PATH. I'd be
> interested by more detail about how it gets to execute its own copy.
There is no doubt that recoll is using it's own copy instead of the
xdg-utils one. Other programs use /usr/bin/xdg-open, and it works
without a hitch. I tried debugging recoll, but did not have much
success. However, doing an strace of recoll and it's children, I see
first an access() to /usr/share/recoll/filters/xdg-open, then a clone()
and then the child does
execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "/usr/share/recoll/filters/xdg-op"...]
At no point does recoll look for /usr/bin/xdg-open.
This is unlike xdg-mime, which it looks for, and finds, in /usr/bin
~/.recoll/recoll.conf just contains
topdirs = /home/daniel/studium/nano/
indexstemminglanguages = english german german2
> There was probably a reason to ship a copy at some point in the past,
> but I forgot what it was, and depending on xdg-utils instead does
> seem quite reasonable.
I'm glad we agree on this :-)
Thank you for your efforts.
Best regards,
Daniel
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