Re: [PUSHED][REVIEW-3-5] Revert fix for "#i86306# prepare against really broken CUPS installations..."

Michael Meeks <michael.meeks -AT- suse.com>
Mon, 21 May 2012 10:40:10 +0100


On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 20:47 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:

ah good, that code always really bugged me and it bit me recently in its
ability to make a simple crash complicated if it happens while the cups
printer discovery is underway so I'd planned to remove it myself.
Pushed.


        Wow - that is a horror ! trying to protect against SEGV's in that
busted CUPS code ? :-) hideous ... IIRC it is already nasty enough to
try to work out which of Java, Mono, OO.o caused a signal and whether
they intended to, without this mess too.

        Thanks for finding / fixing Stephan :-)

                Michael.

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Context

[REVIEW-3-5] Revert fix for "#i86306# prepare against really broken CUPS installations..." · Stephan Bergmann
- Re: [PUSHED][REVIEW-3-5] Revert fix for "#i86306# prepare against really broken CUPS installations..." · Caolán McNamara
  - Re: [PUSHED][REVIEW-3-5] Revert fix for "#i86306# prepare against really broken CUPS installations..." · Michael Meeks

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