Firefox 63 vs. sendmsg()

[Jan Beich]

Jan Kokemüller <jan.kokemueller at gmail.com> writes:

>> Can someone help debug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475970#c7 ?
>> I'm not familar with socket code.
>
> Could it be related to this bug[1]?
> There is a demo program in another bug report[2] that still fails for me
> (running a recent -current, r334337).
>
> [1]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181741
> [2]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215933

Indeed. Firefox 63 works fine after applying the patch in bug 181741.
I wonder, if "packet loss" issue is also responsible for IPC instability
in Firefox < 63 and Chromium.