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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: nasty DCOPServer bug
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-03 1:20:00
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On Saturday 03 March 2001 00:47, George Staikos wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2001 19:42, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > >    Yes it is very confused, and it is dying inside dcopclient.cpp.  I'm
> > > certain it's a race condition because when I put fprintf() statements in
> > > various places in dcopclient/server, the place it freezes in moves.  The
> > > last place I had it narrowed down to was two return; statements.  Yes,
> > > "return;". It was in dcopclient or server under the ProcessMessage (?)
> > > method  and static method (or was it just a function?).  Anyhow this was
> > > at 3 am and I still haven't slept (7pm now).  I gave up because fprintf()
> > > is no way to debug race conditions, especially when one doesn't know the
> > > code one is trying to debug.  gdb couldn't seem to resolve more than 1 or
> > > 2 symbols even after I compiled with -g and explicitly loaded in the
> > > files. *shrug*
> >
> > Can you do a make clean and compile from scratch after you have done some
> > sleeping? :-]
> 
>    Actually I made clean from scratch 4 hours ago.

Yes but that's only one part of the requirement. He also said you should
sleep :-)

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