[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Handle continuous G_IO_IN-s without any data (#1461)

[zhekov]

@elextr 

> However this is really a hack with unknown possible consequences for Geany and other plugins

No other callers use recursive data sources, so they can't trigger the bug. Besides, a significant part of the spawn module is a hack for the broken-by-design glib spawn under Win~1.

> just to support an unmaintained plugin that could go away at any time (and perhaps it should if it triggers this Glib bug)

Well, the README still says "report bugs to <my email>", so I try to fix them. Scope will go probably go away with gtk+2. After several years, judging from Debian statistics.

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