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2004-02-13 22:12:58.386268+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

We didn't just track down that bug, we left evidence of its extermination as a warning to other bugs.

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#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-14 16:32:03.235635+00 by: meuon

Gulp.

#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-14 17:44:50.383789+00 by: Dan Lyke

Yep. Not only did we fix the process that was corrupting the file that was causing the third party library to lock up, now any time when we call the third we spawn a separate thread and make sure it doesn't take longer than a few seconds to do what it needs to.

It's probably foolish to depend on the .NET runtime to protect memory in the separate thread, so we should really fork another process, but under Windows that's pretty heavyweight.