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Crash in multi-TTY mode

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Message #32 received at 3399 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 3399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Shannon Jones <cz2s20d02 <at> sneakemail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#3399: Crash in multi-TTY mode
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:25:41 +0900

>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:47:32 +0900, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> said:

> The situation is classified into the three cases:

>   1. Older libX11 that doesn't care about XlibDisplayDfltRMDB at all.
>   2. Newer libX11, when the first XGetDefault call sets dpy->db to a
>      non-NULL value.
>   3. Newer libX11, when the first XGetDefault call sets dpy->db to NULL.

> Case 3 corresponds to the problematic scenario I mentioned in my
> previous mail and the other cases should work fine currently.  Undoing
> my recent change means that we don't destroy the database ourselves,
> and it leaks memory in Case 2 and 3.

Correction: undoing my recent change causes memory leaks in Case 2.

Also, I filed a bug report about XrmSetDatabase into the freedesktop
bugzilla (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21974).

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

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