Re: [Licq-devel] Release

[Dima K <di...@ya...>]

--- Jon Keating <jo...@li...> wrote:
> 
> I want to make a new release of Licq shortly.  Many
> bugs have been fixed, lots 
> of memory leaks has been addressed, and new features
> have been added.  In 
> otherwords a release is overdue.  If there are any
> outstanding CRITICAL bugs, 
> please let me know about them in the next day or
> two.
> 
> Jon

Hi, 
Now that you mention it, there are a few accesses to
uninitialized/deallocated variables (i've been running
valgrind and fixing them 1 by 1).

The 2 major ones though are the fact that
ProcessRunningEvent_Server_tep doesn't really
guarantee the events are sent in order like it claims
to, the thread can easily pick an event  and then
sleep while the next thread picks the next event and
sends it ahead of that 1st one.

The 2nd one is also in ProcessRunningEvent_Server_tep
and ProcessRunningEvent_Client_tep and has to do with
cancelling an event. This can be best demonstrated if
you try to send a message directly to a user behind a
firewall, the thread will block trying to connect to
the user.. if you cancel the event at this point, the
event instance will be deleted, and a cancel signal
sent to the thread, but the thread does not act on the
cancel signal since cancelation has been disabled..
Once the connection fails, the now deleted event is
dereferenced by the thread and possibly even deleted
(again) in ProcessDoneEvent

I am working on fixing those issues btw, but i don't
really have an ETA yet.

PS. sorry i sent it to your private mail Jon.. i meant
to send it to the ml

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