Re: gmain.c wake_up_pipe construction ...

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Michael,

> 	I just hit an interesting one - where gnome-vfs was not initialising
> threads before creating the default GContext, indeed it was doing it
> afterwards.
> 
> 	The effect of this was rather amusing, inasmuch that the wake_up_pipe
> was initialised to 0 ( at both ends ), the result of this was that to do
> any async operations, I'd see an 'A' on the console, and I'd have to hit
> <enter> to get anywhere further ;-)
> 
> 	Easily fixed in gnome-vfs, but I'm wondering if other people will trip
> up on that, and whether it's worth having an assertion of some form,
> somewhere to ensure that it has been correctly initialised. One easy one
> would be to check that both pipe fd's are not 0 perhaps.

This is Bug #86872. I've just added a right milestone, that we don't
forget.

Bye,
Sebastian
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