Wikipedia activity - unstoppable... bug?

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the testing!  We saw a report of this from Peru yesterday and
> fixed it¹, then released Wikipedia-10.xo² with the fix.  I think Scott
> plans on putting Wikipedia-10.xo and other fixes into a 703-6 shortly.

Cool. I applied the patch by hand, and tested it. Before I had a 100%
repro, now 0% repro - so fixed (in my limited testing ).

> This was our first implementation (using an "atexit" handler) but that
> handler won't run if the reason the activity dies is due to out of
> memory, X crashing, or so on.

Not sure if it matters, but without the patch it didn't exit on
control-q or "stop button" icon.

Everyone's happy that it works...



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