Thunar crash when executable produces multiple output files

Submitted by hyp..@...co.uk

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Description

I think I've filed this as a bug before - but it was a long time ago and I don't recall where I filed it, so trying again.

Essentially the problem is this - I have some code which analyses some data, and produces a large number of output files. Sometimes, and only sometimes, if thunar is open and the current directory is set to where those output files will be created, when I run my code, thunar crashes.

The thunar window goes grey, and then a prompt appears telling me that thunar has stopped responding.

Sorry I didn't put much effort into fixing this last time, but I would really like to get this sorted, because this issue has plagued me for about 4 years now. (I don't want to change desktop env just to get away from this problem as obviously xfce is great.)

I'm hoping perhaps an experienced dev could assign to this issue, perhaps we can exchange email addresses - I can give you my postgrad institution one so you can look up who I am and then perhaps we can exchange phone numbers and get this issue sorted. I think this will be necessary, because I haven't found any way to re-produce the bug other than using the very specific combination of software that I am using. Who knows, it may not even be specifically an xfce/thunar problem. It might be an issue on a deeper OS level, I don't know.

I also haven't heard of anyone else having this problem before, so I don't think it's a known about issue (other than I did report it probably 2 years ago). It's probably literally just me who has the problem, although I can ask some of my colleagues.