[PATCH] fonts: Fix Xinerama sleep logic

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Apr 23 23:53:40 PDT 2014


Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 08/30/13 07:55 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> I introduced this bug, and I have no idea what I was thinking.  The
>> xinerama_sleep label I introduced is actually the closure cleanup path.
>> What you actually want to do is re-queue the work, which is spelled
>> ClientSignal.
>>
>> To reproduce this bug, add a font server to your font path, run xfontsel,
>> and watch your X server crash.

> Unfortunately, when I tried my testcase in that bug against an XWin X server
> with that patch applied, instead of crashing, the X server process just spins.

I hit the original bug on Solaris, so also tried this patch and similarly got
looping.   Stopping in the debugger it had gotten wedged in the loop in
ProcessWorkQueue because doListFontsWithInfo keeps sticking itself back in
the queue.   Getting rid of all the ClientSignal() calls added in this patch
stopped that.   (Still can't run xterm with a font path of just built-ins +
xfs, but that seems more deeply broken.)

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