Hello Keith, Trying one more time with a changed subject line...
On 20 August 2014 14:19, Jan Smout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Keith, > > > thought I'd ping you again. Please fix your spam filter! > > > Regarding this patch: > http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/16753/ > > > my question is very simple: is this patch good enough to be put in a > distro release? Or are there things to be clarified? > > I'm trying to get it into the upcoming Mageia 5 release (I assume it will > be released before Xorg releases it's next libX11 version) > > > I cannot stress enough the seriousness of this bug. An application that > gets killed by a library without any way to recover is not something to be > taken lightly. In a certain sense I got lucky that my app is so heavy on > graphics, so I was able to find a solution rather quickly (as did Jonas > btw). > I suspect most people just see (seemingly) random crashes, shrug and > restart whatever they were running and then blame the application > programmer for writing shitty software. I find that hard to accept... > > > best regards, > Jan > > On 6 August 2014 17:14, Jan Smout <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Keith, >> >> my previous mails probably got lost in the noise. Please see my question >> below: >> >> >> On 29 July 2014 18:56, Jan Smout <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I recently stumbled into an application that crashed because of this: >>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71338 >>> >>> and quickly found the following patch: >>> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/16753/ >>> >>> which seems to work fine (the application used to crash in less than 24 >>> hrs. Has been running for 5 days straight with the patch). >>> >>> >>> Now my question: what is the status of this patch? Are there still >>> details to be clarified before it can be put into the main tree? >>> >>> >>> best regards, >>> Jan >>> -- >>> Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part. >> > > > > -- > Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part. > -- Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part.
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