[evolution-patches] Re: [Fwd: [gthktml] fix to avoid race condition which causes infinite loop]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:05 +0100, Radek Doul�wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:12 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: 
> > Here are some of the things that we like to know when you ask for a
> > freeze break:
> > http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html#ApprovingFreezeBreaks
> OK. The bug this patch fixes is very nasty as evolution composer may
> enter infinite loop, meaning that user looses data from last autosave
> and whole application becomes unusable. The patch was approved on
> evolution-patches mailing list. There's also stress test for gtkhtml
> which was demonstrating this bug every time it was run.

Then it sounds necessary and safe. 1 of 2 approvals. Thanks.

>  It breaks API as it adds new argument to low level functions.
> Otherwise it's very simple fix and doesn't break anything AFAICT.
> 
> Cheers
> Radek
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 21:41 +0100, Radek Doul�wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > please review patch in forwarded message for the gtkhtml/gnome-2-10
> > > release.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Radek
> > > -- 
> > > Radek Doul�<rodo novell com>
> > > Novell, Inc.
> > > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - [gthktml] fix to avoid
> > > race condition which causes infinite loop"
> > > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 21:41 +0100, Radek Doul�wrote:
> > > > Attached patch basically propagates painter to low level cursor
> > > > functions, so that we can get up-to-date pango information there.
> > > > 
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> Radek Doul�<rodo novell com>
> Novell, Inc.
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