[Bug 199872] devel/glib20 Apps using glib 2.42.2 crashing with 'pthread_mutex_lock' abort

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--- Comment #21 from rozhuk.im at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Guido Falsi from comment #20)

> At present the glib20 port does not include an option to use inotify or your patch.

Yes, and no one care this.
But patches for both case available.


> My patch is a simple incremental fix, which requires only importing upstream bits.

Small patch cant fix big ugly code.
Why you do not remove/disable this code and use new kqueue or libinotify?


> I'm not on the gnome team so I don't know which solution they will import in
> the tree, but I don't think diverging from upstream is accounted as an option.

Than you can:
- use libinotify
- promote my patch in upstream or here
- do nothing and continue live with app crashing

My patch (~1000 lines) have small (150 lines) code wrapper from plain C to
glib, it is easy to rewrite/support. Also I publish C code to debug kqueue()
backend without building with glib.


IMHO FreeBSD desktop is unusable with current glib fam.
We can discuss here what is right way to fix it, but users will migrate to
other OSes where developers fix problems.

This bug 2,5 years old, there is two stable solutions=pathes and it does not
commited/fixed yet.
In commercial or more an adequate community this situation is impossible!

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