On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 16:41:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> > > BadMatch is not a documented error code for XGetWindowProperty which > sends X_GetProperty requests. However, the implementation in Xorg > appears to return BadMatch if and only if it's passed a reference to a > drawable that isn't a window. > > I don't understand how the server coordinates window changes with the > WM. Is it possible that a window can be completely deleted before the > WM has handled it? In that case there is presumably a race condition > where a window could disppear and another drawable be created with the > same id. > > I would suggest the following change. This is untested because the > BadWindow or BadMatch error is dependent on a race condition if I > understand correctly. But it's "obviously correct". :-) > > Debian bug#491979 <http://bugs.debian.org/491979> > --- > Ben sent this patch to the Debian bug in 2008, but this seems to still > apply to the current code. The initial report was a ion3 crash because > it got unexpected BadMatch errors from XGetWindowProperty. > Disregard this, the bug was already fixed in commit f04fe06ae24. Sorry for the noise.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=f04fe06ae244b851b38be824b1a80f2f8a030591 Cheers, Julien _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
