Changes between Version 51 and Version 52 of mmcco

Timestamp:

Jul 15, 2015, 9:38:29 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

mmcco

Comment:

add DNS query processes

mmcco

@@ -156 +156 @@
 === Pidgin's processes ===
 
-A little annotation of processes that Pidgin spawns, where, and why. This will help us know where/when to chroot and what might break.
+A little annotation of processes that Pidgin 3.0 spawns, where, and why. This will help us know where and when to chroot and what might break.
 
 * on startup, about twenty processes are spawned for gconftool-2 to register different kinds of URL handlers
  * I wouldn't be surprised if this significantly delays startup, and if there's a better way to do it
  * see [https://hg.pidgin.im/soc/2015/mmcc/main/file/bc63cdee394b/pidgin/gtkutils.c#l3441 pidgin/gtkutils.c:3441]
+* DNS queries are done from forked processes
+ * these don't seem to use any significant access and could probably be heavily locked down
+ * reliably, one seems to die on startup - is this  bug?
+ * see [https://hg.pidgin.im/soc/2015/mmcc/main/file/bc63cdee394b/libpurple/dnsquery.c#l255 purple_dnsquery_resolver_run()]