Re: [PATCH] safe for when threading, related to gnome_show_url (was Re: request for help)

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2001.08.21 20:04 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 21.08.2001 16:21:50 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek:
> > I attach a preleminary patch that should take care of the hang when
> > clicking on URLs. Please, give it a try if you have observe this
> > problem.
> 
> For me (I don't have a smp machine, but compiled balsa with threads) this
> patch freezes balsa when I try to open the second url in one session.
> [snip]
> 
> IMHO, this is just the wrong approach. If I understand the man page of
> pthread_atfork() correctly, then the handlers are *installed* by calling
> it, but never removed. Calling it multiple times, all installed handlers
> ar called
> in LIFO/FIFO order. So upon the second call of balsa_gnome_url_show(),
> all handlers will be called twice...

After giving it a second thought, I agree with you...

/Pawel
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