Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backport of fix to "Too Many Open Files" problem

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 23:26 +0100, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> I see users on 2.6.3 struggle with the problem described at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-October/msg00130.html
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348888 and
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356913
> 
> I've looked at the patch (it's said to be fixed in 2.9.1). Looks like
> someone attempted a fix and it's been reverted and rewritten again.
> What's the correct patch for the problem. Does anyone have a gut
> feeling if it's good to backport that to 2.6.3?

I wrote the patch.

You have good timing because we discovered a critical flaw in the patch
for bug #348888 just today.  I recommend applying the patch in bug
#348888, followed by the patch for bug #384183.  I think it should be
safe to backport to 2.6.3; it's a rewrite of some very old code.

Note that it does break the ABI of libedataserver.

Matthew Barnes
Red Hat Evolution Maintainer