Re: Another crash

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 06/28/2009 08:30:25 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 06/28/2009 06:09:41 PM Sun, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > Peter, here's another crash report. At the time (see, I'm paying
> > attention!), Balsa was iconified with no windows open.
> > 
> > Now time for me to 'fess up, as I could conceivably be contributing
> to
> > the problem. I have a mail-processing ap that puts files into the
> 'new'
> > subdirs of folders for Balsa to discover. Perhaps that is
> contributing?
> > 
> > If you confirm that this is the same problem as previously, I'll 
> add
> > the patch you sent.
> 
> Yup, looks like the same crash!
> 
> The mail-processing ap could be involved, if it moves the mail from
> your  
> mbox-style inbox to deliver it elsewhere in the folder tree, although 
> 
> Balsa tries to be robust to actions like that by other aps.  If the  
> incoming mail never passes through your inbox, it's unlikely to be  
> involved, as the crash appears to arise from the mbox backend, not 
> the
>  
> maildir backend.

OK, I'll apply the patch and we'll see.

BTW the mail I was referring to never sees the inbox. It gets sent to 
the folder tree as appropriate, including the inbox. Could file locking 
be an issue? The code I'm using uses a nonblocking exclusive flock().