Re: egg-recent isn't threadsafe

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

lør, 04,.09.2004 kl. 01.02 -0400, skrev Matthias Clasen:
> Looking at somewhat mysterious occasional panel crashes when saving
> files in gedit, jrb and I discovered today that egg-recent isn't
> threadsafe, since it installs a timeout which isn't protected by
> GDK_THREADS_ENTER/_LEAVE. 
> While the fix is fairly trivial, the fact that it applies to a module
> that has been copied all through Gnome makes fixing this a giant code
> freeze break. We need release team approval to commit the attached patch
> to libegg, and then all apps using egg-recent need to update their
> copies. The alternative is unpredictable crashes from all multithreaded
> apps using egg-recent (this includes all apps using gnome-vfs + egg-
> recent). Not nice.

1 of 2 from me

What would it take to trigger it though?

Cheers
Kjartan