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Hello,

On Mar 6, 2007, at 00:50, leon zadorin wrote:

>> I'll list a few observations and I'd like to know if it's just me or  
>> if
>> others can confirm them.
>> For instance firefox didn't really work prior to newlock2 - it would
>> either crash on startup or show a messed up user interface ( as in  
>> text
>> misplaced and with wrong attributes ). Now it's rock stable ( by
>> firefox standards at least ). I'm using pkgsrc/www/firefox.
>
> when was newlock2 introduced?

About two weeks ago, in -current only - it's the reason why you had to  
update libpthread.

> I think my NetBSD v3 (albeit on AMD Athlon, i386port) is quite before
> that time and I found it was/is always quite stable with firefox
> (running w/o swap partition, but rather with swapctl on file which is
> encrypted via cgd).

I'm talking about firefox on macppc.

> The only thing I was able to experience (problem-wise) was running Ion
> (http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/) window manager with my video
> app  
> (http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/advideo/ 
> status.html)
> which is, potentially, pthreads-hungry AND it uses X(Un)LockDisplay
> quite a bit... when switching the display between various windows I,
> occasionally, was able to lock the program... but then again (even
> though I could not reproduce the problem on linux) it could just be my
> code that is the source of a problem :-)

Does it still happen on bleeding-edge -current? And how does it behave  
on macppc?

have fun
Michael
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