[Linux-disciples] Mozilla-firebird and Mozilla

[Adam Kessel]

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A 6k executable should be a clue that it is a wrapper.  In fact, it is.
If you look at MozillaFirebird, it's a shell script which does a bunch of
environment checking.  Included in this is the line:

ALREADY_RUNNING=3D`check_running`

check_running is a subroutine within the shell script:

$MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM 'ping()' 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

This "pings" Mozilla to see if it's running.  Since Firebird and Mozilla
Browser operate off of the same code-base, either one will return a ping.
This may or may not be a bug, depending on your perspective.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:09:45PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I just had Mozilla 1.2.1 open, and ran mozilla-firebird. What launched
> instead of mozilla-firebird was another instance of Mozilla 1.2.1. If I
> close all instances of Mozilla and run mozilla-firebird, the correct
> executable launches.
>=20
> Any idea why this happens? I thought maybe there was some funky
> symlinking happening, so I whereis'd mozilla-firebird:
>=20
> slaniel@JeffTweedy:~$ whereis mozilla-firebird
> mozilla-firebird: /usr/bin/mozilla-firebird /etc/mozilla-firebird
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla-firebird.1.gz
>=20
> In turn, we have
> slaniel@JeffTweedy:/usr/bin$ ls mozilla-firebird
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Oct 15 07:53 mozilla-firebird
> -> MozillaFirebird
>=20
> and then
> slaniel@JeffTweedy:/usr/bin$ ls MozillaFirebird
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         6217 Oct  9 22:31 MozillaFirebird
>=20
> A 6K executable for Firebird? Un-possible. Does anyone know what's going
> on here? And does this explain why running mozilla-firebird invokes
> another instance of Mozilla 1.2.1?
>=20
> --=20
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>   open sewer and die.''
>  -Mel Brooks
> 			=09
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Adam Kessel
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