Daniel, can you take a look at this? On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 18:52 -0400, John McCutchan wrote: > Yo, > > I'm attaching a patch that fixes the reference counting bugs > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172365 , > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302236 , and countless distro > specific bug reports. > > The bug symptom was that the kernel backends would drop the refcount to > 0 and then stop watching a directory, while the subscription layer would > think that it was still watching the directory. > > The cause of the bug was a missing return statement when removing a > subscription that was on the new subscription list. Gamin would ask the > kernel to stop watching a directory when it had never asked it to watch > it in the first place (because it was still on the new queue). This > caused the kernel ref counting to screw up. This was also why that > assert was causing a crash for me. > > The patch also includes some debug changes, and I factored out the get > pid name code. I'm away from my main development machine, so I won't be > able to commit this until Sunday. Feel free to commit before then. > > John McCutchan > _______________________________________________ > Gamin-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
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