Re: Inifinite loop with gdict and latest gtk/glib

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101 psu edu> writes:
> Hi there. I'm investigating gdict bug #72822
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72822
>
> It appears that whenever doing a lookup gdict will go into an infinite
> loop. When I run it in a debugger it seems to be stuck in glib main loop
> functions and the cpu usage is at 100%. Furthermore it doesn't seem to
> happen consitently for everyone. The gdict code here hasn't changed for
> a while and it used to work okay.
>
> The gdict source (dict.c) uses GIOChannel to connect to the dict.org
> server.
>
> So my question is: Does anyone have an idea why this may happen? I
> appreciate any help.

If you close the file descriptor your IOChannel is connected to, then
input handlers attached to the IOChannel will start to run
continuously. Maybe that's it?

Havoc