GNU bug report logs - #21380
25.0.50; GTK-induced segfault when scheduling timer from window-configuration-change-hook

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21380: 25.0.50; GTK-induced segfault when scheduling timer from window-configuration-change-hook
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:23:38 +0300

> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:02:59 +0000
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 21380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>     So maybe we should introduce a special copy_sequence_no_quit function
>     that never calls QUIT, and then use it for copying the timer lists.
> 
> How would that be different from calling block_input () and binding
> Vinhibit_quit around the call to copy_sequence?

That only prevents us from reading new events from the X socket, but
what if some signal that is already pending invokes some Lisp?
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