[Xastir] Interface glitch

[Eric Christensen]

Curt,
I'll see if I can come up with the right combination to make it easily
reproducible.

Eric KF4OTN


Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, John Ronan wrote:
> 
>> Come to think of it.. that happened me as well.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 6 Nov 2006, at 21:29, Eric Christensen wrote:
>>
>>> I had similar problems earlier, too.  I would add an interface and
>>> then
>>> the interface box would show up with no buttons.  If I closed the
>>> interface box and open it right back up it would all come back with no
>>> problems and the new interface would be in the window.  It was a small
>>> annoyance and didn't really break anything.
> 
> A single person reporting a problem may mean that it's a
> non-repeatable glitch.  Three people reporting it in quick
> succession means that it is a real problem.
> 
> At first I just figured it was another Lesstif or Motif bug, but now
> I think it's more likely the below:
> 
> Near as I can figure the hang might be due to the interface
> configuration code trying to kill/restart the read/write threads
> associated with that interface.  I'll have to play a bit and see if
> there's a timing issue between that and bringing up the dialog
> again.  If so, perhaps disallowing or delaying the dialog until the
> first operation has completed might be a reasonable fix.
> 
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