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24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process

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Message #104 received at 15946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: SB <richstyles <at> gmail.com>, 15946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:14:33 +0100

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> writes:

> Hello.
>
> 20 jan 2014 kl. 10:53 skrev SB <richstyles <at> gmail.com>:
>
>> After reading reports in this thread that it was fixed in the trunk I
>> went and applied the aforementioned inline patch to the current trunk
>> and indeed the distnoted issue seems fixed. Whereas with my patch to
>> the inline patch the problem seemed a little more tolerable and still
>> required occasionally killing distnoted (and Emacs.app crashed
>> although less frequently).
>> 
>> If there is a single commit that can make distnoted behave, it may be
>> in the interest of others using Mavericks to have this incorporated
>> into an official point release and close this bug (the distnoted bug
>> for those affected can be quite severe, locking up the entire machine
>> in my case). Mavericks is inevitable for many mac users and some
>> people may not be ready to transition to 24.4 for whatever reasons.
>
> There will not be any release for the 24.3 branch.  24.4 is next.
>
>> 
>> The modified inline patch (only relevant if you use Japanese or some
>> other language for writing text in Emacs and want seamless language
>> switching while using various keys/commands) for the current trunk:
>> 
>> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8517045
>
> The patch is way too big to be incorporated into Emacs in the current feature freeze.

Is this still a problem on Mavericks with Emacs 25?

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