Re: URL handling broken?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

On 2001.08.16 15:56 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 16.08.2001 13:16:07 schrieb(en) Toralf Lund:
> [snip]
> > That's odd... In any case,
> [snip]
> > -	    gnome_execute_shell(NULL, exe_str);
> > +	    system(exe_str);
> [snip]
> > makes the problem go away. I don't think it's the right thing to do,
> > though...
> 
> gnome_execute_shell (and also gnome_show_url, which calls this function)
> seems
> to be somewhat broken, if I remember correctly at least on smp machines.
> 
> There was a discussion about exactly the same problem a few days (weeks?)
> ago.
> I did not follow this discussion in detail, maybe there's something
> interesting in the archives...
Didn't find anything. Does anyone else remember more about this?
--
Toralf