Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62861
imlib 1.0.13 has incorrect waitpid
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
imlib 1.0.13 leaks file descriptors which causes major problems for people using pixmap themes. mmarker released 1.0.14 to fix this. In order to make the whole RHL7.2 -> RHL7.2 w/Ximian GNOME -> Hampton upgrade process work correctly, it would be very convinent if you could skip a release between the errata and the Hampton version so we (Ximian) can ship a version that sorts in between RHL7.2 and Hampton. Thanks. Peter pzb@ximian.com
correction, imlib has an incorrect waitpid call that causes it to lock if something goes wrong. Still a bad bug.
Tossing bug to Owen
a) I assume you mean 1.9.13? b) Can I just forget you said anything about "leak file descriptors"? c) Is there anything in Ximian GNOME that is affected by the 1.9.13 bug? To my knowledge, it principally affects Enlightenment, and might possibly cause problems if there was a sawfish theme that referenced bad image files. d) I'm going to do an update of the errata. e) I don't see any real difference between this and any other situation where Ximian might release a newer version than what we end up shipping in 7.3.
OK, I see the file descriptor leak now. Working on this some more, I'm going to do a patch 1.9.13 rather than a 1.9.14, since getting the same 1.9.14 package to build on 6.2 and 7.x turns out to be major hassle (has recent libtool dependencies)
a) yes. It was a typo on my part b) I'm getting differing answers on the FD issue. I'm going to ask mmarker for a definitive answer, but it does appear that there is a FD leak in imlib. c) For pixmaps themes on applications with progress bars/thermometers, the leaking FD issue is a bug problem. This is an issue for both Ximain and RH GNOME apps. Ximian has already shipped an update for this, so XG isn't affected by this bug. d) OK e) No, isn't a specific difference. Just ignore this part of the bug. It isn'trelevant. Other bugs have made it clear that handling the upgrade path isn't an issue, as it is unsupported, and there is no interest in helping make it easierfor the users who do take this path. I filed this bug as a beta tester first, second as a Ximain employee. I want tosee Red Hat have the best distro available, and try to keep my beta tester and Ximian hats seperate. I shouldn't have mentioned Ximian in the bug, as it just confused the issue.
Fixed in imlib-1.9.13-3.7.x