On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:51:17AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > More reports of the same thing are useless/counter-productive.  We're
> > reaching the point of diminishing returns where it takes longer to answer
> > emails/classify failures into "already known/new"...
> > ... which is a recipe for issues to fall between the cracks, because people
> > WON'T report new issues, or they will be dismissed as the same as something
> > that's already known...
> 
> Yes, I agree. I think we should at least add the known-needed ones
> like getpw (even if we don't want them long-term). We have no hope to
> analyse the code and figure out a complete list of what's actually
> needed as is usual with pledge..

I've added getpw and mcast in 60.0.1.

> > BTW, if you're supposed to start dbus BEFORE firefox, that's cool, but then
> > the firefox code should be tweaked to display "please start dbus" instead
> > of the "helpful" error message "firefox crashed in a pledge violation 
> > (proc)".
> 
> Simplest method is a wrapper script I think.

Or telling people (via the README) to make sure its running. I hate
wrapper scripts, and i'm *NOT* going to 'tweak the firefox code to
display please start dbus'. If this isnt enough, someone caring enough
should file bugs upstream, be it at glib or firefox.

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