whimboo/mozmill-crowd — Issue #2: Make use IPC pipe and replace usage of nsIProcess
Author: whimboo
Created: 2012-02-07 14:55:17+00:00
State: open

Remove the nsIProcess usage and switch to IPC Pipe as it is used in Enigmail. We would even be able to use it in a restartless extension as shown here:

https://github.com/ochameau/jetpack-subprocess/tree/951f901cb3b8e923c70679978ad1c8919a2a4003

So it would be worth exploring this issue and the relevant necessary steps. At least our process code has to be changed to be asynchronous first.