Re: [Evolution-hackers] [evolution-alarm-notify] Crash in remove_queued_alarm() and possible remedy

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2014, 09:18 +0200 schrieb Milan Crha:
> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 07:42 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > These crashes recently happened more often, but not always and 
> > usually
> > when I made intense use of alarms, snoozing some, rescheduling 
> > others, a
> > "torture test", if you will, spanning several hours.
>
>         Hi,
> when talking about snoozing, do you have applied also this one?
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709162#c3

No. Just did, thank you.

> > Finally I tried the following remedy in tray_list_remove_icons(),
> > calling tray_list_remove_async() directly instead of putting it in 
> > the
> > message queue. Does that make sense to you, experts?
>
>
> Not much. What was it supposed to help with? I know the current git 
> master (and 3.12) calls many things synchronously on the main thread, 
> which can block the UI, thus maybe it is also related to that, a 
> change being done along those lines.
>         Bye,
>         Milan

Well, what does it make sense to call a cleanup function asynchronously
by puting a message into a message queue, which happens to be executed
in a separate thread, as far as I know. That could be the cause of the
destroyed pointer, different threads interfering with these lists.


-- 
thomas