Re: [PATCH] for bad re-enterancy problem on slow machines

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 3/7/06, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:36 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On 3/7/06, michael meeks <michael meeks novell com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 08:56 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > > This makes me very nervous, given the timing, but clearly it is a bad
> > > > problem, so we should probably commit it. Is there someone else (maybe
> > > > Mark?) who is familiar with Bonobo and can double/triple-check the
> > > > code just to be certain?
> > >
> > >         So - wrt. the code change they are somewhat banal - of course, the
> > > debugging session behind that is more involved ;-)
> > >
> > >         basically just:
> > >
> > > +       char *copy = g_strdup (original);
> > >         ...
> > > -       foo (original);
> > > +       foo (copy);
> > > +       g_free (copy);
> > >
> > >         for 2 separate methods.
> > >
> > >         hard to see how it could go that wrong & it fixes some really nasty
> > > login behavior on those old/slow machines we're encouraging people to
> > > use by telling them how much faster the next release is :-)
> >
> > The path was 4K, so it seemed a bit bigger than that. Go ahead
> > (assuming one other A-OK); if we could get a new tarball ASAP so
> > Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, etc. can package and ship and test ASAP that
> > would be great.
> >
> as soon as approved, I can make a release.

Maybe you can find someone on IRC? I'm in a meeting and can't round
anyone up, but...
Luis