Re: Bug List

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Benjamin Kahn <xkahn cybersites com> writes:

> 	I reported a long while back a bug in glib with threads and
> giochannels.  I beleive the problem was that, in some cases, a network
> read was reported, when none existed.  The problem was an uninitialized
> structure, but should never occur.  Did that ever get fixed?  Do I need to
> dig out the bug report?

I haven't gone through GLib bug reports yet. The bug seems to be
still there:

 http://bugs.gnome.org/db/84/8482.html

I don't think Sebastian's decipherment is right - if the program
is actually threaded (something not completely clear in the original
bug report), then the problem is probably simply that the file
descriptor is being checked before it is ever polled. The answer
to the is probably to simply initialize fd->revents to 0 in
g_main_add_poll(). 

Regards,
                                        Owen
  
> On 30 Nov 2000, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > In preparation for GTK+-1.2.9, I've been tackling the GTK+ bug tracker
> > over the last day or so. Attached to this is my current semi-sorted,
> > semi-annotated list of bugs. It's pretty big.
> > 
> > There are quite a few bugs here where we asked for more information
> > quite a while ago and never got any. We don't have a policy now
> > on when to close such bugs - my recommendation is that we should
> > probably wait and close them once GTK+-2.0 has been out for a while. 
> > 
> > But there is also a fair bit of low-hanging fruit here, that people
> > could probably tackle with some results. In particular, I'd like
> > help with the problems in the first section, labelled "Portability
> > Bugs", which are problems that show up, often from multiple reporters, 
> > on platforms I don't have access to.
> > 
> > Even if these are platform bugs, not GTK+ bugs, it would be nice
> > to have instructions for workarounds or even just descriptions
> > of the problems in the GTK+ INSTALL file.