On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:01:05AM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote: > 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.
Congratulations, you won the worst argument award. > > 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. That 'someone' is the main dev, but he's rather MIA at the moment. Lots of bugs have been fixed recently in svn, and thunar 1.0 is around the corner. I'll send patches soon for xfce 4.6b3, which includes thunar 1.0, and we'll see if the issue is already fixed (from svn log, i don't think so). Anyway, i'll bug the devs on IRC, i know some who started taking over thunar and start knowing its internals. For the record: http://svn.xfce.org/index.cgi/xfce/thunar/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=29229&view=markup > > > > --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 p.s: uzeless trolling iz useless. Landry
