[17696] in Athena Bugs
Re: (sun4, 8.3) Netscape sometimes closes stdin on streaming helper app
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 23 21:19:16 2000
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:19:11 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200003240219.VAA23308@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Larry Stone <lcs@mit.edu>
CC: bug-infoagents@mit.edu, lcs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17498] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> This has been shown to happen on the Athena 8.3 Sun and SGI platforms,
> using Netscape 4.61 from the infoagents locker. The X window manager was twm
> but that shouldn't matter.
> Netscape had been configured to use an experimental streaming MP3 player
> for the Electronic Reserves project. The relevant entry in my personal
> .mailcap was:
> [...]
> The helper app (mpg123 in this case) is started with the standard input
> file descriptor, 0, not open on any file. Most apps don't check for
> that condition and react as if given no data. This one has been
> modified to check and write a diagnostic when standard input is closed.
Hi Larry,
Realistically, we don't expect that Netscape would do anything about
this if we reported it, and we believe that taking the time to deal
with reporting the bug is probab;y not worth our time. Additionally,
Todd tells me that this issue has been documented for mpg123 users,
who are the relevant audience. As such I'm going to close this bug
report.
--
Jonathon
