THX Hakan, important point. Look like I have to search for all usual suspects who may spawn a sub process in python On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 10:39 +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote:
Are we sure that only Popen() is used? Subprocess (i.e. subprocess.run()) is both very convenient and is the recommended way to do things, if I remember correctly.
Cheers,
Hakan
On 22.11.2022 22:42, Michael Büker wrote:
A very good idea. Could this be automated? By grepping for Popen() calls maybe?
Michael
On 22.11.2022 20:12, BiT dev wrote:
I have just managed to identify a bug preventing the sys tray icon to be shown (together with the issue reporter)
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1236#issuecomment-1324079326
and it turned out that a required CLI tool (`xdpyinfo`) was not installed which is used to check if X11 is running
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/713590f45cb83d1192a104ec77b73562...
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/713590f45cb83d1192a104ec77b73562...
I think we should work through all source files and document required CLI tools. This is not only required to prevent bugs but also for package maintainers.
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