Firefox throw can't find temp file error
Francesco Ariis
fa-ml at ariis.it
Wed Aug 15 11:23:43 UTC 2018
Hello Till,
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:55:03PM +0200, Till Smejkal wrote:
> I guess the difference and hence the problem is, that if firefox is already running,
> the firefox process started via mailcap will actually not do anything except
> signaling the main process to open the file. However, if firefox is not yet running,
> the firefox process started via mailcap will become the main firefox process and
> hence stay for some time. The problem is now, that mutt deletes the file ones the
> started process exits. So there is a race condition now (firefox process signaling to
> main ff-process which in turn opens the file vs. mutt deleting the file). You can
> change your mailcap maybe so that it creates a copy of the file to show before
> calling firefox.
It does help indeed! Not sure if mailcap handles copy+open, I'll check
now
-F
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