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-rw-r--r--mail/ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--mail/message-list.c8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mail/ChangeLog b/mail/ChangeLog
index cb91b880bd..72e93cb7fe 100644
--- a/mail/ChangeLog
+++ b/mail/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2000-08-15 Peter Williams <peterw@helixcode.com>
+ * message-list.c (main_message_changed): Address bug #496 --
+ possible race when forwading a message_changed event.
+
* mail-threads.c (dispatch): Close the dispatch thread's half of
pipes when about to exit.
(mail_operations_terminate): Close the main thread's half of the
diff --git a/mail/message-list.c b/mail/message-list.c
index 7e00d0ac14..c635f3ea84 100644
--- a/mail/message-list.c
+++ b/mail/message-list.c
@@ -884,12 +884,18 @@ main_message_changed (CamelObject *o, gpointer uid, gpointer user_data)
uid));
if (row != -1)
e_table_model_row_changed (message_list->table_model, row);
+
+ g_free (uid);
}
static void
message_changed (CamelObject *o, gpointer event_data, gpointer user_data)
{
- mail_op_forward_event (main_message_changed, o, event_data, user_data);
+ /* Here we copy the data because our thread may free the copy that we would reference.
+ * The other thread would be passed a uid parameter that pointed to freed data.
+ * We copy it and free it in the handler.
+ */
+ mail_op_forward_event (main_message_changed, o, g_strdup ((gchar *)event_data), user_data);
}
void