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

[Eric Williams]

On 12/5/18 1:14 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> 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?

This is kind of what I'm trying to get at: is it possible that WebKit 
gets a copy of all open sockets somehow when creating an extension? If 
this is completely outside the realm of possibility then I'll 
investigate further.


Eric