number of workspaces : mcs dialog vs. desktop window menu

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Wed Nov 3 12:38:52 CET 2004


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:17:27PM +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 11:55 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:29:06PM -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > Ok, updated xfce-mcs-manager to unload modules before exit and xfwm4 to re-add
> > the dynamic workspace change handlers.
> > 
> > Seems to work properly, but I don't think I saw the problems with it last
> > time, so it could do with some testing.
> 
> The problem arised when we renamed the workspace plugin, two plugins
> managing the same channel were loaded. Therefore, the second was
> unloaded, but the callback was still active and pointing to dead code
> (which I see as a serious security issue)
> 

Yes, indeed. That is definitely fixed now. The only thing I'm not sure about
it what happens when the manager is killed forcefully with 'kill -9'. The
netk_screen object is global so it still exists.

	Jasper



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