[Pidgin] mmcco modified

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Page "mmcco" was changed by mmcco
Diff URL: <https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/mmcco?action=diff&version=52>
Revision 52
Comment: add DNS query processes
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--- mmcco (version: 51)
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 === Pidgin's processes ===
 
-A little annotation of processes that Pidgin spawns, where, and why. This will help us know where/when to chroot and what might break.
+A little annotation of processes that Pidgin 3.0 spawns, where, and why. This will help us know where and when to chroot and what might break.
 
 * on startup, about twenty processes are spawned for gconftool-2 to register different kinds of URL handlers
  * I wouldn't be surprised if this significantly delays startup, and if there's a better way to do it
  * see [https://hg.pidgin.im/soc/2015/mmcc/main/file/bc63cdee394b/pidgin/gtkutils.c#l3441 pidgin/gtkutils.c:3441]
+* DNS queries are done from forked processes
+ * these don't seem to use any significant access and could probably be heavily locked down
+ * reliably, one seems to die on startup - is this  bug?
+ * see [https://hg.pidgin.im/soc/2015/mmcc/main/file/bc63cdee394b/libpurple/dnsquery.c#l255 purple_dnsquery_resolver_run()]
 
 
 == GTK 3 migration ==
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