[webkit-gtk] Sockets/file descriptors and the web extension

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Eric Williams <ericwill at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> Some preliminary debugging shows that the web extension still holds 
> onto the socket/file descriptor used when opening the port in step 1 
> -- even though the port has been closed. This causes the error in 
> step 4. If no web extension is created (i.e. step 2 is skipped), then 
> no error from step 4 happens.

I'm confused and suspect I've misunderstood the scenario. But: why does 
WebKit have anything to do with a socket that you create in your own 
code?