Hi, I'm currently not developing anything for use with firefox, however, I
am very interested in the inner workings of firefox. In particular, I am
wondering how the "low-level" I/O works in XPCOM. For example there are
several different directories defined in
xpcom/io/nsAppDirectoryServiceDefs.h, but there are no native paths
defined I'm guessing that they are defined at compile-time as much as
possible, but I don't see where. Also, is it possible to change the native
paths that the definitions point to? In addition, I've been looking
through the source for quite some time, but it always seems to get stuck
when I want to know what an IDL file does. I can see the headers generated
by xpidl, but I want to know how the interface does things, not just what
goes into and comes out of the interface. Is this possible? Sorry if my
questions seem some-what dumb, but I'm relativly new to the firefox code
and in particular xpcom and idl.

Thanks for the help/advice
--jMP
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