[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 118113] New - spider causes registry infinite loop

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118113

Changed by vishnu at pobox.com.

--- shadow/118113	Wed Jul 23 08:19:54 2003
+++ shadow/118113.tmp.7974	Wed Jul 23 08:19:54 2003
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+Bug#: 118113
+Product: GStreamer
+Version: HEAD CVS
+OS: Linux
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: normal
+Priority: Normal
+Component: gstreamer (core)
+AssignedTo: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org                            
+ReportedBy: vishnu at pobox.com               
+QAContact: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org
+TargetMilestone: HEAD
+URL: 
+Summary: spider causes registry infinite loop
+
+I don't know how to reproduce this, but my gstreamer became unusable due to
+the spider causing the registry to enter an infinite recursion.  The last
+message is repeated 10000s of times:
+
+DEBUG       GST_TYPES(24863)
+gstxmlregistry.c(708):gst_type_type_find_dummy: gsttype: need to load
+typefind function for video/avi
+
+I don't even care about video/avi so I would be perfectly happy for this to
+fail in a normal way.  This should absolutely never happen.  If there isn't
+a better solution, you should keep a recursion counter to bail out after
+more than 10 recursions.  The full gst log is attached.  This is gstreamer
+HEAD 23 Jul 2003.