Re: CVS HEAD: crash when exiting, filter related

["Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean-luc coulon wanadoo fr>]

Le 08.06.2005 09:53:32, Pawel Salek a écrit :
> On 06/08/2005 12:12:15 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I quit balsa, sometimes it crashes.
> > I finally got a backtrace.
> >
> > There is twice the message "Filtre incorrect" (== incorect filter)  
> > in the trace. So I think [tm] it is a filter problem.
> >
> > Can you help ?
>
> If it crashes sometimes, it looks like the filters are not properly  
> locked for concurrent access (my first feeling). And when I look at  
> the accesses to LibBalsaMailbox::filters_loaded, and  
> LibBalsaMailbox::filters, I see they are not protected.  
> libbalsa_mailbox_filters_when() assumes that the filter list does not  
> change in the meantime, either. Some either locking or reference  
> counting would be in place there. How often does it happen? Is it at  
> least sometimes reproducible?

If I start/stop balsa 4 or 5 times a day, sure I will get one...

> > [snip]
> > #10 0x080cacf0 in filters_prepare_to_run (filters=0x83660b8) at
> > filter.c:239
> > 	fil = (LibBalsaFilter *) 0x1
>
> This looks really fascinating...
>
> Pawel

Jean-Luc

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