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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: [Amarok] b18a028: Use shared memory for collection scanner to
From:       Jeff Mitchell <mitchell () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-11-06 13:03:34
Message-ID: 4CD55226.9030406 () kde ! org
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On 11/06/2010 05:38 AM, Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> One of the reasons for collection scanner as a separate executable was
> to prevent a crash in collectionscanner from bringing down Amarok as
> well. As both processes only communicated with each other via files or
> stdout/stdin, this was relatively safe. Is it ensured that a
> corrpution of the shared memory data does not crash both processes?

This is especially important as TagLib has a history of being quite
crashy on corrupted files (which are quite common). (The old ScanManager
tried to skip such files if the scanner was crashing on a particular
file (with mixed success) by restarting the scanner.)

--Jeff


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