gEDA-dev: Filechooser and component selector code

[Stuart Brorson]

> 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)

Thanks, Peter.  Gschem has now been running for another hour (making
the total run time 5 -- 6 hours).  I did about 20 component selector
open/close cycles just to exercise things.  No crash yet.

Stuart