User:Jamesboston/nsIProcess

Name of Project

Fix nsIProcess

Description

The Mozilla API for nsIProcess is not fully implemented. At present, the PID of a created process is not retained and cannot be killed. The API would also benifit from a new spec that includes inter-process communication.

Leader

James Boston

Contributors

None (yet).

Details

API proposal

(coming soon)

Existing API

Code snippet of how to use the existing API

Existing Code

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/threads/nsProcessCommon.cpp

Relevant bugs

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442393
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702

News and updates

Blog

A blog about the ongoing project to fix nsIProcess:
http://jamesboston.ca/cms/taxonomy/term/16

Hot off the presses

Sept 21, 2008: Wrote a patch for the existing API so that the kill() method works for Win32.

Sept 19, 2008: Discussion with Benjamin Smedberg and David Humphries to discuss the new API proposal.