gEDA-dev: Filechooser and component selector code

[Peter Clifton]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:02 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> 
> > 	Also, please test the release and let me know if anybody else
> > experiences any more crashes.  I am most keen on fixing those.  Thanks.
> 
> I updated to the latest gEDA on my FC5 box today (Sept 5).  Then I
> followed Peter's procedure for producing crashes (i.e. load a
> schematic, place parts, close it, discard parts, then place more parts
> on next window which opens).  I have left gschem running with teh new
> parts living on teh new window for about 4 -- 5 hours.  I am happy to
> say that no crash has occurred so far.
> 
> What was the crash frequency previously?

I don't think my recipie was fool proof, but opening and closing the
component selector (with preview window), and closing schematic pages
was creating lots of still attached auto-save timeouts which refered to
deleted TOPLEVEL structures.

I'd guess it used to crash once every ten times the recipie is run from
scratch, but couldn't swear to it. (You only have to wait as long as the
autosave timeout to cause it)

Peter