RE: [rox-devel] Re: ROX-Session 0.27

[Matsumoto Y. <mat...@ho...>]

>To: sw...@ul..., rox...@li...
>Subject: RE: [rox-devel] Re: ROX-Session 0.27
>Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:58:30 +0900
>
>Stephen Watson -
>>Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> 12/Feb/2006 15:43:13 >>>
>> >ROX-Session 0.27 (a simple session manager for the ROX Desktop.) 
>>has
>> >been released.
>>
>>Interesting bug this morning...  OverflowError in 
>>xsettings._get_manager()
>converting negative value to unsigned long.  Traced it down to the 
>server
>>time (which had wrapped and was being returned as ~-2G) and a bug 
>>in
>>pygtk (which didn't raise the exception when it should have).
>
>I had same behavior. and I'm avoiding this bug with following code.
>
>--------------
>    def get_server_time(self):
>         ...
>        return abs(long(time))
>

CVS-HEAD was fixed already. (with correct way)

- Yasuhiro Matsumoto