When the MimeUpdateThread is done, it marks itself as finished and notifies the thread manager to clean up finished threads. Since multiple such threads might finish at the same time and trigger the cleanup notification, other threads that already marked themselves finished but haven't actually exited yet might already be deleted and removed. This would then lead to a use-after-free when they subsequently tried to send their own cleanup message. To solve the race condition, the thread manager will now wait for the thread to actually exit before cleaning it up. The introduction of the launch_daemon has made this race condition more likely due to more applications starting in parallel, each triggering a CreateAppMetaMimeThread which is a subclass of MimeUpdateThread. This commit might therefore fix #12237.
Haiku
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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
Goals
- Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
- Clean, clear, concise code.
- Unified desktop environment.
Trying Haiku
Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and release images. Haiku is compatible with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of the "Emulating Haiku" guides.
Compiling Haiku
See ReadMe.Compiling
.
Contributing
Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers, (technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!
Contributing code
If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the patch submitting guidelines.
If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use one of our OpenGrok servers:
- http://xref.plausible.coop/ (provided by Landon Fuller)
- http://code.metager.de/source/xref/haiku (provided by MetaGer)
Contributing documentation
The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found
in the tree at docs/user
). Just find an undocumented class, write
documentation for it, and submit a patch.
Contributing translations
See wiki:i18n.
Contributing software ports
See HaikuPorts.