Bug 146993
| Summary: | [GStreamer] Make plugin installation work with seccomp filters | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro> |
| Component: | WebCore Misc. | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | mcatanzaro, pnormand, zan |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Bug Depends on: | 144099 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 140072 | ||
Michael Catanzaro
When the user installs a missing gstreamer codec,
This TBH might be more work than is worth the effort. It's required to run the plugin scanner in a child of the UI process, for one. Also, any approach that doesn't involve restarting the web process will require changes in gstreamer.
For discussion of this issue, see:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140131
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742617
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Michael Catanzaro
When the user installs a missing gstreamer codec, it should then be possible to play the media with the codec. Currently this should work fine (sans the current crasher bugs ;), but seccomp filters will break this.