On 02/17/2016 12:15 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 2/17/16, Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> wrote: >> One distro I'm using is Manjaro, and they've set $BROWSER in >> /etc/skel/.bashrc to xdg-open. In that situation, when a command line >> program tries to open a port on localhost, xdg-open tries and fails. >> fossil ui seems to persistly retry forever, causing a fork bomb. > > The code that launches the web-browser is here: > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/10310d2?ln=1784 > > This is inside a loop, but if the loop reaches the line above, that > guarantees it is on its last cycle. So the web-browser should only be > invoked once. Unless you can see something that I am missing.... You're right. I shut down fossil and my browsers and from a terminal directly ran 'xdg-open http://127.0.0.1:8080', which is what fossil would presumably do in my environment. Sure enough, xdg-open started fork-bombing, so it was wrong of me to point the finger at fossil. Sorry.
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