Re: xsane requests username and password after saned has exited

From: Nick Lamb (njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 19:45:25 PDT

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    On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:46:12AM +1000, Ben Stanley wrote:
    > The main reason I was concerned about this is that the message you get from
    > gimp after xsane crashes (or is killed) suggests that gimp's internal memory
    > structures may have been corrupted, and that you should re-start gimp. That's
    > all I have to go on.

    We can't detect whether the plug-in went crazy before it died, and so
    we just advise users to restart if a plug-in suddenly crashes. This is
    a general warning on a "better safe than sorry" basis.

    Actually 99% of crashes are completely benign, and don't adversely
    affect Gimp at all. This is very helpful when testing a plug-in because
    you don't need to keep re-starting Gimp :)

    For your case, where we know that everything the plug-in did before its
    death was sane (pardon the pun) you can continue without significant
    additional risk of data corruption or problems AFAIK.

    Nick.

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