[PATCH] Kwin infinite recursion

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 26 of November 2003 21:49, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I've had kwin consistently crash on me the last couple of days when
> starting my (rather old) ksirc build. As soon as a second chat window pops
> up (which is after auth'ing to nickserv, as I use SDI mode) kwin would go
> crazy in an infinite recursion loop, eating all my memory if I'm not quick
> enough to kill it.
>
> After adding a bunch of kdDebugs around I got the attached debug log. As
> you can see it's alternating between the two windows looking for
> transients, whatever those are.
>
> Attached patch fixes it for me, but as I don't even know what transients
> are I think it's wrong. Hopefully it helps others to come up with the
> proper fix, in the mean time this helps me to keep my box alive :)

 No, sorry the patch is wrong. Are you sure your kwin is up to date? This 
shouldn't happen anymore (and I cannot reproduce it the way you describe).

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