Hi,

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:41:19PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Edd Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I reported a bug in Thunar today, apparently it's to do with our pthread
> > implementation. Can someone take a look?
> >
> > http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4831
> 
> I don't use the software so I don't have access to the source code.

Sure you do.

> If
> you can provide snippets of the source that are in question more
> people would be able to comment on it.
>
> the bug report suggests it
> "sounds like something to do with threading" and someone else jumps to
> the conclusion "sounds like a threading bug in OpenBSD's pthread
> implementation". Brilliant! This may very well be so,  but i failed to
> see any evidence offered to support this in the bug report.

We are still investigating! Give us a chance!

> 
> It would help if snippets of the source code were provided that show
> how the two threads communicate with one another.

Go to /usr/ports/x11/xfce4/thunar and type 'make patch', the source code
by some miracle appears in w-thunar-0.9.3 :P

Someone replied to the bug report, saying I should look at
'thunar-vfs-job.* and related files'. I have been putting printf()'s in
the code, but it looks like the program fork()s early on and I'm not
sure where the output goes in this case.

> 
> --patrick
> p.s., rant: personally i don't even understand why anyone would have a
> need for a file-manager type app in a unix environment. but that is
> besides the point

I use a file manager when selecting what movie to watch when they all
have similar names, and when arranging photos (using the thumbnails).
Also it's nice when non-techy friends use my computer to have one.

-- 

Best Regards
Edd

http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

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