Re: multi thread bug ?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.09.03 19:10:51 +0100 christophe barbe wrote:
> I've noticed something that is certainly a bug related to multi-thread.
> A few times ago I was used to launch balsa from gkrellm (a one process
> monitoring program).
> I've stop to do that for two reasons : Sometimes balsa freeze a few seconds
> because it's father (gkrellm) do something in a busy manner (this is not
> balsa related). And sometimes balsa doesn't start when I click on the mail
> button.
> 
> The second is balsa related and I discovered (not explained) it yesterday
> by doing a "ps -auxf".
> Gkrellm never launch the mail program if the previous one is still active.
> And balsa sometimes don't leave when you exit it. You can still see it in
> the process and one of its child is "defunc".

this is a Gkrellm bug. this means it doesn't rip it's children properly.
that usually leeds to all kind of nasty bugs cause the application gets 
confused on programs are "active" and "inactive"
been there, done that ;)

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