GNU bug report logs - #16069
Sigsegv, libxft, emacs --daemon, emacsclient

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Constantin Kulikov <zxnotdead <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 08:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
To: nil <namespace_collision <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: "16069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <16069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#16069: emacs bug #16069 - cause & reproduction
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:53:50 +0400

On 03/01/2014 02:36 PM, nil wrote:

> Xft fonts will be leaked

Yes - if GC happens at arbitrary point after X connection is gone, there
is no way to release font-related resources.  Anyway, better than crash.
Installed in r116642.

> (while poking around in font.c I noticed the font cache wasn't being cleared due
> to a change of structure, something along the lines of the attached seemed to fix it.)

Thanks, installed in r116641.

Dmitry
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