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Revision as of 00:12, 21 September 2008
Contents
Name of Project
Fix nsIProcess
Description
The Mozilla API for nsIProcess is not fully implemented. At present, the PID of a created process is not retained and cannot be killed. The API would also benifit from a new spec that includes inter-process communication.
Leader
Contributors
None (yet).
Details
API proposal
(coming soon)
Existing API
Code snippet of how to use the existing API
Existing Code
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/threads/nsProcessCommon.cpp
Relevant bugs
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442393
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702
News and updates
Blog
A blog about the ongoing project to fix nsIProcess:
http://jamesboston.ca/cms/taxonomy/term/16
Hot off the presses
Sept 21, 2008: Wrote a patch for the existing API so that the kill() method works for Win32.
Sept 19, 2008: Discussion with Benjamin Smedberg and David Humphries to discuss the new API proposal.
