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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: nspluginscan fork() patch
From:       Stefan Schimanski <1Stein () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-09-02 18:52:22
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On Sunday, 2. September 2001 20:44, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch makes nspluginscan fork for every load of a supposed
> Netscape plugin. This is done to prevent a .so which causes a segfault
> from stopping the whole scanning process. This unfortunatelly happens
> with a certain .so in the Sun Java 2, shipped with Netscape 6.1, so
> people who install Netscape 6.1 would begin seeing Crash dialogs on
> every KDE startup / plugin rescan. This patch fixes it.

Sound like a good idea though I haven't tested your patch.

Schimmi

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