On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 08:51:12AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > So the following patch seems to make webkit 1.4.2 mostly usable. > > This doesn't fix all issues with epiphany or xxxterm. I have been > making updates to xxxterm to work around some issues. I started working > with the upstream guys but they are less than interested because "linux > works". The core of the issue is that they reset ulimit values despite > being set properly by the browser.
Why not fixing that code instead ? Do you have references to the discussion with upstream ? > Secondly web sockets keep half open > connections around longer because they never issue a close and it is > trivially simple to run out of file descriptors. What about adding that close() properly instead, through a proper bug report ? You're trying to slip disable-link-prefetch in, wasnt it supposed to be a pref exposed through the api ? And what is the other patch ? Is it reported somewhere upstream ? Landry
