Re: gtk_timeout_remove causes seg fault

["Tara M" <learfox furry ao net>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:30:44 +0200 (SAST), Marco Slaviero said:

>  Basically, I add a timeout which calls a network function, to refresh data
>  every so often. When the program is disconnected from the network,
>  obviously I don't want the program to carry on refreshing.
>  
>  I have tried two strategies:
>  
>  1) Call gtk_timeout_remove in the disconnect function.
>  This seg faults when calling gtk_timeout_remove.
>  
>  2) Return FALSE if the network is disconnected.
>  This too causes a seg fault in gtk_timeout_remove.

Hmm, what level is your disconnect function in? Meaning is it
in the timeout function itself? But still I have written
apps like what you described without any problems.


  
>  A bt in gdb for 2 looks like this.
>  
>  #0  0x4041d0e4 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x404b1d60, p=0x80a8030) at
>  malloc.c:3100
>  #1  0x4041cfba in __libc_free (mem=0x80a8038) at malloc.c:3023
>  #2  0x403ac36d in g_free ()
>  #3  0x403aaae0 in g_source_destroy_func ()
>  #4  0x403a87b3 in g_hook_free ()
>  #5  0x403a8aa8 in g_hook_unref ()
>  #6  0x403ab20e in g_main_dispatch ()
>  #7  0x403ab751 in g_main_iterate ()
>  #8  0x403ab8f1 in g_main_run ()
>  #9  0x401c67b9 in gtk_main ()

Looks like the problem occures deep within GTK+, which version
of GTK+ do you have?

# gtk-config --version



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