Re: URL handling broken?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

Whoops.

That was meant for the Balsa mailing list, not the GNOME one...

However, this may actually be a gnome-lib problem, so perhaps someone on
this list knows more about it? What happens is that Balsa under certain
conditions - I don't know exactly what they are, but threaded execution has
something to do with it - will hang in gnome_execute_shell(). This function
is called directly with the GNOME URL handler ('galeon %s' in my case) as
argument when displaying HTML content (if in-line display is not enabled),
and via gnome_url_show when selecting a link. The function will start a new
process, but it appears to do nothing. Execution continues when it's
killed, though.

> 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
> 
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