More protection agains bugs in backend API

["Le Lain, Olivier" <olivier lelain xrce xerox com>]

Hello,

My mail is related to this bug :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306143

I find it a bit pity that a "simple malloc bug" make nautilus completly 
freeze/crash.
Won't it be possible to protect it against that (timeout, error code return) 


I'm aware that the best would be to have bugs nowhere :-) but in this 
particuliar case, it would have been painless to show Mime-type = unknow 
instead of having nautilus unusable.

Anyway, I am not a developper so I don't realize the sum of work (or 
even the feasability) it would demand.
I just wanted to submit the idea.


Cordialement / Cheers.


(I reposted since I stupidly did a reply to avoid reentering To:, so it 
goes to the unrelated gcc 4 thread - sorry for spam)