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From reading the post it seems fixing the three issues mentioned would have been faster than writing all this. Honestly, if you can understand the code, those are really minor things.

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If they aren't that hard to fix, why hasn't Ubuntu fixed them? Remember, this guy had a support contract.

I think there's been a misunderstanding. We (the people who ran into the accountsservice problem) don't have a Canonical support contract. hp50g, who commented upthread, is the one who had the Canonical support contract.

We did 'fix' these issues as soon as we managed to track down why the daemon was using up so much CPU time on our machines. I wrote my entry partly because I was annoyed at how terribly badly thought out the code was and partly to warn other people.

(We have never tried to feed the 'fix' upstream because our fix simply hardcodes some answers. I don't think it's even possible to fix the code to do what Ubuntu apparently wants it to do, although it could be less catastrophically inefficient.)

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