[Pan-users] Re: Bug: Using external editor stops background task.

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On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:39:01 +0000, Greg Lee wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:12:20 -0400, Douglas Bollinger wrote:
> 
>> Can you post a bug on this?
> 
> Okay, it's #465763.  I added my opinion that it could be regarded as
> documented behavior, if there were a document, and if it were described
> in that document.

Thanks for opening a bug, I complained about this some months ago
but never opened one.

There are many such bugs, tho (if that's what they really are).
Opening a large newsgroup for reading will stop everything as
well, for example.

Another is when fetching headers (whether new, all, date-range,
etc.): when the last ones have been received, pan2 sorts & merges
them with the other stored headers, and that part will stop
everything, too.

All this is on a fast two-core machine with maxed-out RAM btw.

So are we expected to file a bug for each little "action" that
"stops" everything? meaning to document which actions will stop
things like this?  Then Charles can pick which one(s) he might
want to "fix" (more multithreaded code I imagine).

Thanks.  :)