[Kde-imaging] [Bug 89541] Exporting to HTML from Digikam doesn't seem to work (unsafe thread access in imagegallery plugin)

[Renchi Raju]

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89541        
renchi pooh tam uiuc edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|normal                      |major
            Summary|Exporting to HTML from      |Exporting to HTML from
                   |Digikam doesn't seem to work|Digikam doesn't seem to work
                   |                            |(unsafe thread access in
                   |                            |imagegallery plugin)



------- Additional Comments From renchi pooh tam uiuc edu  2004-09-15 19:07 -------
i had a look at the plugin and the threading implementation is all wrong, with access to the main GUI being made in a separate thread. this by itself will cause random crashes. but what makes it a very serious bug is that in digikam for eg, the retrieval of information for images and imagecollections comes from the database and accessing the database from a separate thread (which this plugin does) can potentially corrupt the database and lead to loss of data (i can see plenty of internal database errors being printed out when the plugin is running) so i'm upgrading the severity level to major.
please note, this might not be always be reproducible because thats the nature of threaded code.