HEADS UP TESTERS: Recent GNOME 2.3 problems

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 17:49, Franz Klammer wrote:
> hi!
> 
> maybe i'm completely wrong but i think here's a typo in
> bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-fork-server.c on line 364:
> 
>  } else if ((childpid = fork ())) {
>                 _exit (0);      /* de-zombifier process, just exit */
> 
> my knowledge of C tells me that this should look like
> 
>  } else if ((childpid == fork ())) {
> 
> i've changed it and it seem's this removes at least the thing with the
> zombie.

No, the code is correct the way it is.  What it's saying is:

if (((childpid = fork()) != 0)) {

Which basically says, "if, after the fork, the code is executing in the
parent, do the following."

Joe

> 
> franz
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke sagte:
> > This ain't good news.  The recent updates to libbonobo and Nautilus
> > (possibly gnomevfs2 actually) causes applications to lockup and/or crash
> > on -CURRENT.  -STABLE seems to be unaffected, and working quite well.
> > For that reason, I recommend sticking with nautilus2-2.2.4, and
> > gnomevfs2-2.2.4 as well as libbonobo-2.2.1 and bonobo-activation-2.2.1.1
> > for the time being.  If you want to help me track down the problem, by
> > all means, upgrade to the "bad" versions, and start troubleshooting.  I
> > spent last night hammering away at the bonobo problems, and ended up
> > filing:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112725
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > --
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> >
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