Re: g_io_channel_read_chars() loop

[Ron Steinke <rsteinke w-link net>]

> From: Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>
>
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 05:33:51PM +0100, Joel Becker wrote:
> > 	So, I did an update yesterday.  Lo and behold, my application
> > starts looping.  Unfortunately, it seems pretty random, but not at all
> > rare.  I am merely doing a g_io_add_watch() on a subprocess file
> > descriptor.  In my GPollFunc, I call g_io_channel_read_chars().
> > Sometimes the run works just fine.  Others, I get a loop here:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 	I've looked at the code extensively, and at the changes from the
> > last checkin, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary.  It looks
> > clean to me.  But I'm still getting this behavior.  It happens on both
> > Linux 2.2 and 2.4, though it triggers more often on 2.4.
>
> 	More fun information.  Patching it back to '5 days ago' (as of
> 16:19 PDT 08/09) makes it work again.  But for the life of me, I can't
> see why.  I've looked at the code.  I've looked at the diffs.  Dunno.
> Still looking.

Are you using UTF-8 encoding (the defualt)? Sounds liked you backed out
my fixes to read from encoded_read_buf instead of read_buf for UTF-8.
That may have broken something.

Ron