Comment 76 for bug 36581

I rechecked the whole code path for
  children = gam_tree_get_children(tree, dir_node);
and how it is walked. I still can't understand why those data which
are local variables of the subroutines could generating a loop or
modified to that effect.
But to try to make progress I added sample trick code detecting
loop in the children list within gam_poll_scan_directory_internal()
to raise an error and break the loop if this happens.
I released a 0.0.15 version with that workaround
   http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/sources/
I would be very interested in feedback about this for those who had
troubles with 0.0.14 looping in their environment.
I don't consider the problem fixed though, it is a workaround until
I fully understand the problem.

Daniel