[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 161481] [GTK] Use GTestDBus instead of dbus-launch in WebKitTestBus.cpp

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--- Comment #5 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> ---
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> Tools/TestWebKitAPI/gtk/WebKit2Gtk/WebKitTestBus.cpp:38
> +    g_setenv("DISPLAY", display.data(), FALSE);

So the problem here is it's too late to be doing setenv; we've already initialized threads. Some other thread could call getenv at the same time -- there are getenv calls in many many places -- and crash. It's not a theoretical issue, I've seen multiple cases of this crashing gnome-session.

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