Re: GNOME CVS: glib owen

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@appliedtheory.com> writes:

> Gnome CVS User wrote:
> > 
> > CVSROOT:        /cvs/gnome
> > Module name:    glib
> > Changes by:     owen    98/12/18 17:52:19
> > 
> > Modified files:
> >         .              : ChangeLog gmain.c
> > 
> > Log message:
> > Dec 18 12:51:39 1998  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
> > 
> > * gmain.c: Fix errors in computation of timeout
> > expiration times > 1sec.
> > 
> 
> Has this been a problem for a while?  I was chasing a bug in mozilla
> last night in what I was guessing was glib related to timeouts.  If you
> had a long timeout, for example 30 mins to refresh cnn.com's web page,
> glib would return the timeout within a second or so and would promptly
> crash.

I don't know about the crash, but the returning within
1 second was a problem since 1.1.8. (Timeout computations
were basically been limited to 1 second.)

Regards,
                                        Owen