On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:21:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Well what other cases are there? Can we enumerate them and come up > > with similar solutions? > > Javascript has timers. We execute rather a lot of javascript from > sources we can't influence at all.
Which brings me to yet another gripe I've got with firefox, _WHY_ does it run javascript for tabs I can't see? Simply freeze the interpreter. Then again, what does JavaScript do with these timers? I don't really see how javascript/random-native-binary are really different, something needs doing. What something? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
