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Written by TTimo on 2024-11-11 at 21:31

"Improving Steam Client stability on Linux: setenv and multithreaded environments" - I wrote about fixes we've made in the most recent Steam client release on Linux: https://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2024/11/the-steam-client-update-earlier-this-week-mentions-fixed-some-miscellaneous-common-crashes-in-the-linux-notes-which-i-wante.html #steam #linux #steamdeck

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Written by darix on 2024-11-11 at 21:39

@TTimo i wonder for all the getenv stuff if we can just force it into the main thread, which should hopefully be safe? like override the getenv symbol and then call the original one with syscall interface in the main thread. not sure if it wouldnt be more pain or not.

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Written by Glyph on 2024-11-11 at 21:45

@TTimo A fascinating little read!

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Written by Edwin Groothuis on 2024-11-11 at 22:43

@TTimo Reminds me a discussion with PD a couple of weeks ago. "We have this crash in OpenSSL, we will have to work with them to determine the cause". Me: "You have a crash in getenv(). In a multi-threaded program. Leave the people from OpenSSL alone. Don't use setenv() in your code."

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Written by JayT on 2024-11-12 at 06:26

@TTimo Nice work!

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