Re: Browsing By Dir

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 10:28, David Hough wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've made some improvements to my initial support for browsing by dir in 
> the gtkmm browser. It no longer crashes when the dir dosen't exist, it 
> only displays supported file types and it sorts the directory contents.
> 
> I've also added a new preference MusicBrowserShowDirs which is a ';' 
> seperated list of dirs that should be displayed in the browser. It no 
> longer uses the "watch this dir" pref.

Good. 


> I've also come across a quite annoying bug that occasionally makes zinf 
> seg fault when reading the dir contents (when expanding a dir node in the 
> tree). It appears to be a problem with boost, the backtrace is
[snip]
>   p0=0x83429e0, p1=0x839b470, data=0x42964fec) at treeview.cc:633
> 
> The fact its segfaults in a pthread function and it only happens 
> occasionally suggests that there's some threading problem with reading the 
> dir contents but I can't think what it could possibly be. Any ideas would 
> be appreciated.

I am not sure that the boost code is thread safe and I know the mdb code
is *not*.   In fact don't do any mdb operations while the database is 
doing a music search.   This is  bug, but I have not had the time
to go fix it yet.



> Again the updated code is avaliable as a tla/arch archive at
> http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/arch/
> 
> I've also finally got around to patching all my changes against the 
> current CVS. The patch is at
> http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/arch/dirpatch-cvs.diff
-- 
Kristian G. Kvilekval
email:[email protected] office:(805)893-4276 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kris



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