Re: Bug report about empty file operations dialog: caused by use of stat() where stat64() should be used?

[Sense Hofstede <sense qense nl>]

2010/2/2 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 21:45 +0100, Sense Hofstede wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm sending this mail to inform about the possible causes of a bug
>> report we received on Launchpad in Ubuntu. This bug --
>> <https://launchpad.net/bugs/492655> -- is about the File Operations
>> dialogue being blank. (More reports in forum threads [1][2].)
>>
>> Someone suggested that this could be caused that Nautilus uses stat()
>> on large files as well, whereas files larger than 2 GB should be
>> checked with stat64(). So far no user has responded, but I was
>> wondering, can this indeed make the File operations dialogue go blank?
>
> We do already use stat64, but that can't make a dialog go blank. From
> the screenshot it looks like nautilus is blocking the main thread on
> something so its not repainting the UI. The best way to debug something
> like that is to get a backtrace from nautilus (with debug info) at the
> time this is happening.
>
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Thank you for your reply. I'll ask the reporter(s) for a backtrace.

Regards,
-- 
Sense Hofstede
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