[Xcb] problem when getting replies

[Jeremy Kolb]

Jamey Sharp wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:01:14PM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>> Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>> OK, I've written xcb_prefetch_maximum_request_length. Except I can't
>>> build XCB right now, because xsltproc is broken (it segfaults), so I'm
>>> not sure I've got it right. I'll push it when I can compile it. :-/
>> Your xsltproc segfaults too?  I thought it was just something with my
>> machine.  I've been scratching my head over this one for a few days.
> 
> There was just a report on the xorg mailing list that someone with
> Slackware has (probably) the same problem, and Josh saw this in Debian a
> bit before I did since he runs unstable. I'm still kicking myself that
> we didn't track it down then: we could have limited the spread some.
> 
> I got a stack trace from the segfault -- it's some 30 calls deep -- and
> it dies trying to free something. But the call history doesn't make it
> at all clear to me what our stuff does that tickles this new bug.
> 
> --Jamey
> 
> 

Who writes xsltproc?  We should let them know since it seems to be
reproduceable.

Jeremy