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• I agree to follow the Code of Conduct that this project adheres to.
• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Electron Version

37.2.0

What operating system(s) are you using?

Ubuntu, Other Linux

Operating System Version

Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

No response

Expected Behavior

shell.openPath should not be a blocking call.

Actual Behavior

On Linux shell.openPath is a blocking call.

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

Here is the linux implementation of shell.openPath (shell/common/platform_util_linux.cc:349)

void OpenPath(const base::FilePath& full_path, OpenCallback callback) {
  // This is async, so we don't care about the return value.
  XDGOpen(full_path.DirName(), full_path.value(), true, std::move(callback));
}

The third argument to XDGOpen is true. That argument is named wait_for_exit and causes the call to XDGOpen to be synchronous when true. (XDGOpen is defined on line 276 of the same file.)

That true should be false.