Re: [Evolution] IMAP folders unresponsive under RH7.2

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Okay, I was wrong... did some more debugging and it turns out that the
real problem was that there was a way for our function to return 0 when
it should have returned -1 because of some slight mis-logic and that was
then causing select() to hang... anyways, fixed in CVS is the word on
the street.

Jeff

On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 01:26, Ben Steeves wrote:
> Many thanks.  Yay!  I just love compiling kernels at 2AM :-)
>
> On 28 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> > I had a similar problem earlier tonight when I turned on my
> > flaky_network_write() wrapper around libc's write() call. This magical
> > function seems to break kernels, because in kernel 2.2.17 on my laptop,
> > all of Evo's pthreads crash whenever errno gets set to EAGAIN or
> > EWOULDBLOCK which are both valid error conditions when writing to a
> > socket...
> >
> > Now, kernel 2.4.7 (default redhat 7.2 kernel) will block forever in a
> > select() call after errno gets set to EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK in a
> > multithreaded library (compiled even with -D_REENTRANT).
> >
> > Therein lies your problem...go and complain to your local kernel
> > developer and get him/her to fix it.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 01:01, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > > I just did a clean install of RedHat 7.2, Ximian Desktop & Evolution, but
> > > I'm using the /home from my RH7.1 install.  When I start up Evo, I can
> > > access my tasks, calendar and contacts, but my IMAP folders won't open (I
> > > click on the shortcuts on the left and nothing happens).  
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? 
> > >
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> > >
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> "Power corrupts.  Absolute power is kind of neat."
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