[news.eclipse.platform] Re: [ActivityMgmt] Infinite loop stemming from M

[Ben Vitale <bsv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My buddy reported this to me as something he was experiencing in his 
workbench. I can't reproduce it in mine. He had his debugger running
and paused it at a random point during the "lock-up", which produced the 
stack I attached. He told me later that it eventually came back from the 
lock-up.  So not really an infinite loop, just an, umm, really long 
evaluation authority update (?). :)

At any rate, gonna wait until I can repro it locally before I file a bug.

Yes, the source provider simply fires the event.

Thanks
Ben

Paul Webster wrote:
> Please open a bug at 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Platform&component=UI&short_desc=[ActivityMgmt] 
>
>
> The more information that you include, the better.  Also, it's causing 
> an infinite loop in the Pattern matching code?
>
> As for source providers, you can only fire the event on the UI thread, 
> so there shouldn't be a threading issue.  But your source provider 
> simply fires the event, right?  It doesn't then try and do anything, 
> like activating a part, opening a dialog, or setting focus?
>
>
> PW