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? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159258 Title: Helper applications launched by Firefox inherit ALL file descriptors -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
