On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> wrote:

> That's good to know. In the big picture, setting the $BROWSER value is
> the better solution for me, on the user side, because it avoids problems

with other programs. On the vendor side, if fossil ui feels a need to
>

They're not mutually exclusive - you can set fossil's web browser
independent of BROWSER. i don't see the interoperability there?


> spawn a second process to open the browser, it should make sure the
> first one has been killed first. From the system design side, I'm going
> to now check my general fork-bomb protection settings, and take up my
> findings with the distro maintainer.


i don't remember this having been reported in the the 8 years i've been
listening in, and the code doesn't (AFAICS) loop on the browser call, so i
currently suspect a vendor-level or xdg-thing bug.

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----- stephan beal
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