<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>I already forked it for myself a couple of months ago. As long as I control the packages which get installed on the machines I have no real issue... except for an uncomfortable feeling that if things like this don't get fixed, what other dragons might be hiding deep down in the xlib library?<br>Now, when somebody would want to run the application on their own install, that's where the shit hits the fan. I'll be forced to tell them to downgrade their xlib to 1.3.3 and file a complaint on this list :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 November 2014 10:49, Alexander E. Patrakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrakov@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrakov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    Just fork it. I am sure that such antisocial step is the only way
    forward, because I also have a patch that was not looked at for too
    long, and then rejected because it breaks keystone correction (which
    was broken in a different way before the patch).<div><div class="h5"><br>
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    <div>04.11.2014 13:23, Jan Smout wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">and again... reminder...<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 28 October 2014 12:51, Jan Smout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smout.jan@gmail.com" target="_blank">smout.jan@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr">reminder...<br>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On 21 October 2014 12:49, Jan
                    Smout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smout.jan@gmail.com" target="_blank">smout.jan@gmail.com</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
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                          Keith, we are approaching the one year
                          anniversary of this bug already. Maybe it is
                          time to finish the patch and leave the issue
                          behind?<br>
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                        <div>fyi, I have been running my application
                          with the first version of Jonas's patch for 65
                          days straight now without a glitch (it used to
                          crash in less than 20 hours).<br>
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                        <div>I also intend to restart this long duration
                          test once the final patch will be released<br>
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                        <div class="gmail_quote"><span>On 27 September
                            2014 05:23, Keith Packard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keithp@keithp.com" target="_blank">keithp@keithp.com</a>></span>
                            wrote:<br>
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                                  <div>Matt Turner <<a href="mailto:mattst88@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattst88@gmail.com</a>>
                                    writes:<br>
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                                    > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:40
                                    AM, Jan Smout <<a href="mailto:smout.jan@gmail.com" target="_blank">smout.jan@gmail.com</a>>
                                    wrote:<br>
                                    >> Keith Packard doesn't seem
                                    very responsive (as in 'completely
                                    ignoring the<br>
                                    >> subject')<br>
                                    ><br>
                                    > Perhaps you should try Ccing
                                    him? (now Cc'd)<br>
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                                The problem is that reviewing this patch
                                is *really hard*. The last<br>
                                time, I think I spent a solid couple of
                                days thinking about this and<br>
                                making sure I'd caught all of the cases.
                                I'm still not sure it's right,<br>
                                but I guess it's probably better than
                                what we have?<br>
                                <span><font color="#888888"><br>
                                    --<br>
                                    <a href="mailto:keith.packard@intel.com" target="_blank">keith.packard@intel.com</a><br>
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                          -- <br>
                          Life is complex, it has a real part and an
                          imaginary part.
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                  -- <br>
                  Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary
                  part.
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        -- <br>
        <div>Life is complex, it has a real part
          and an imaginary part.</div>
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