Hi Ben!
You wrote:
> I've made a few important fixes to avoid zombie processes (an existing
> bug) and file descriptor leakage. The new version of this patch is
> below.
> Unfortunately when I gave this code some serious testing I found a race
> condition in xdg-screensaver that can leave child processes hanging
> around if the user toggles between pause and play rapidly. There also
> seems to be a bug in xprop, which it relies on, that means the
> screensaver might not be resumed when we quit. So I can't recommend
> this fix at the moment.
How severe are these bugs? Looking at #508125 (that is the
xdg-screensaver bug you mean, right?), it doesn't look too bad.
Also #508126 doesn't look like it should be holding back the release.
Would it be ok to apply your patch and fix #508125 and #508126 post-lenny?
Bas.
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