Re: Some experiences with web browsers...

[Samuel Thibault]

Pino Toscano, le Thu 10 Nov 2011 16:08:03 +0100, a écrit :
> Alle giovedì 10 novembre 2011, Svante Signell ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 01:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Most of these are simply due to dbus, actually.
> > 
> > What's wrong with it, the latest version, 1.4.16-1, seems to build
> > OK.
> 
> But it doesn't work, mainly for two reasons:
> - missing socket credentials, which prevents user applications to
>   connect to the system bus (see the socket credentials and scm creds
>   pages on the "open issues" wiki page)

This is still needed.

> - select() which behaves wrongly in very short timeouts (see eg [1]);
>   capping the timeout (when specified) to at least 1ms is usually enough

This is now patched in Debian (by capping to 1ms indeed).

Samuel