[haiku-development] Re: Tracker is unstable
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:25:23 +0100
Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Stefano Ceccherini
> <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > AFAIK Axel already changed that long ago. If the Tracker isn't
> > running, Deskbar will launch application by itself.
> Looking at that code, it does indeed call TrackerLaunch from FSUtils
> which tries to do the launch work itself, unless you call it with
> async = true (which Deskbar does), in which case it tries to post it
> directly to the async launch looper, which is running in Tracker.
> Since it accesses that directly by pointer, that can't work when
> invoked via Deskbar in its current form. By the looks of it r35351
> may
> have broken that if it did previously work.
It definitely worked at some point, and I guess mmlr's changes to the
process did break it.
A simple work-around would be to just use synchronous launching then;
shouldn't be too bad.
Bye,
Axel.
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