On Friday 25 January 2013 22:54:55 Nick Leverton wrote:
> In article <201301240054.50984.slavek.banko@...>,
>
> Slávek Banko <trinity-devel@...> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have a problem to discuss:
> >
> >Before long time I prepared a patch, which is included in the commit
> >9e3f8a7f. It was based on a completely broken patch for KDE4 - commit
> >c24ea2b4. Our patch works correctly, but contains one potential risk - is
> >dependent on DNS => on the network delays.
> >
> >First question is, how big is this risk, because we have a patch
> >incorporated nearly a year ago and no problems observed. The fact is that
> >if the user will have a problem with the network, probably will not even
> >be able to open a remote window. However, this risk actually exists.
>
> It is possible that one DNS lookup may freeze for a while on a generally
> working link, if you hit a DNS server that does not respond.
this is exactly the reason why we have not integrated the patch into KWin.
>
> I have my suspicions about Plasma on KDE4
sorry I do not get what you want to say with this comment
> but I haven't noticed this
> causing any general hang on Trinity up to 3.5.13.
which says exactly: nothing. You would only be able to hit the problem if you
start an application setting a FQDN name (e.g. libre office) and DNS not
working at this time. Most probably chance: session restore.
--
Martin Gr��lin
Attachments: