Xffm "find" tool hesitation :)

edscott wilson garcia edscott at prodigy.net.mx
Tue May 11 19:22:55 CEST 2004


El mar, 11-05-2004 a las 11:54, Francois Le Clainche escribió:
> Le mardi 11 mai 2004 à 11:33, edscott wilson garcia a écrit:
> 
> > El mar, 11-05-2004 a las 10:39, Francois Le Clainche escribió:
> 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've noticed that for successive searches (even identical) of existing
> > > files using the xffm "find" tool (4.1.3), the first works, the second
> > > fails with a "nothing found" message, the third works, the fourth fails,
> > > et caetera...
>  
> > Are you sure the "Path" combo is set correctly on the one that fails?
> > This combo is set by xffm to be the selected directory. If something
> > goes wrong with figuring that out, it will set the combo to $HOME. 
> 
> Yes. Here is a sreenie of a test using searches in my $HOME.
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/flc.web/images/xffm_tmp_snapshot.png

Indeed. Looks like a race condition (fgr command done before xffm has
time to open pipe?). Let me try to figure it out.






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