<p><a href="https://github.com/elextr" class="user-mention">@elextr</a></p>
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<p>However this is really a hack with unknown possible consequences for Geany and other plugins</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>just to support an unmaintained plugin that could go away at any time (and perhaps it should if it triggers this Glib bug)</p>
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<p>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.</p>

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