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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Workaround for non-thread-safety
From:       Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-30 0:19:16
Message-ID: 201005291719.24353.chanika () gmail ! com
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> > 
> >> I've seen krunner crashing because of this. That happens because the
> >> D-Bus calls are sent by several threads in response to the same event:
> >> the user typing.
> >> 
> >  KRunner auto-restarts and apparently the crash isn't that common. Not
> >  even
> > 
> > close to justifying doing anything special about it.
> 
> It is not just KRunner. Dolphin crashes a lot due to that bug (less to
> not at all with my workaround though), the activity manager crashes, the
> nepomuk filewactch service crashes. And those are only the ones I looked
> into. I think the problem is that before this no app really used DBus in
> a multithreaded situation.
> 

the activity manager? but... it's not threaded. o.0

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