Re: dead nfs mount blocks opening other folders

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 12:32 +0000, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
 
> > I'm not sure what you mean. Say we get the first item in the high prio
> > queue, and that item is already being processes (directory->details-
> > 
> >>get_info_in_progress != NULL). What do you want to do in this case?
> 
> Skip it (in the "while" loop) and move to the next one? They are all 
> async anyway. We need to make sure that all the other code that works 
> with the lists as well still works with whatever changes are made.

You can't do that when the operation is outstanding. It only does one
operation at a time. 

> I think this needs some careful examination to actually propose a fix 
> (patch).

Yes.

> When I looked through this code my feeling was it was overly complicated 
> and could use some simplification:-)

Maybe. This is pretty complicated code, yes, but its also the core of
nautilus, and as such its ok if it is complicated, as long as it works
well.

 
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