[PATCH/RFC] On the iconview and the speed of directory listing.

Maks Orlovich mo002j at mail.rochester.edu
Wed May 28 23:44:36 BST 2003


Michael Brade wrote:

> On Sunday 25 May 2003 10:09, Maks Orlovich wrote:
>> The only reason I didn't commit it yet is that this makes triggering
>> KDirLister crashes on very large directories pretty much unavoidable -
>> don't ask me why. I would also appreciate if someone could confirm this
>> independently (see my footnote [2] for a good reason).

> Can you please provide a backtrace? I don't have the time to test this
> right now. And I can't see the connection to KDirLister at all, unless its
> a real bug in KDirLister that is triggered by some timing issue.

Ah, sorry, that's the 
KURL::equals()
KURL::cmp
KDirLister::slotJobToBeKilled()
etc., crash Zogje is looking into.(i.e. #15 at
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51215#c15) 
(Or did he fix it already -- it doesn't seem to happen any longer). 
It just seems that the particular workload of the huge testdir tends to
trigger it, don't know. 








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