Re: Menu items won't open and close after a while

[Mike Witt <mikewitt 2009 gmail com>]

On 01/01/2010 04:05:20 PM, Paweł Sałek wrote:
> On 01/01/2010 05:51:23 PM, Mike Witt wrote:
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > I do not recall a problem like this. It looks like a file  
> > > descriptor leak to me. Maybe the output of 'lsof' will reveal more  
> > > information?
> >
> > I'm not exactly sure what to look for. My current balsa has been
> > running for a couple of days ...
> >
> > lsof | grep balsa | wc -l
> >
> >   appears to show 232 open files.
> >
> > Of which 42 are something like: "/tmp/pop-HT3P5U (deleted)", so I  
> > assume
> > those are hanging around from my POP connections to gmail.
>
> Mike,
>
> I think you hit the spot! The pop3 handling code could leak the file  
> descriptors when the network connection was broken while downloading  
> the message. I attach the patch that fixes the problem for me. I have  
> commited it also to git repository.
>
> Pawel

Paweł,

Thank you for doing this. I wonder if the fix will make it into the
Fedora-11 build now that Fedora-12 is already out. I have never tried
to build Balsa myself, but I suppose there's no reason why I couldn't
try.

One thing I'm a little confused about. I don't see why these files not
getting closed would stop the menu items from opening and closing. Is
it really the same bug?

-Mike