Subject: bug#39164: 27.0.60; Intermittent crash on MacOS 10.14 in setup_process_coding_systems

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:09:16 +0200

On January 29, 2020 12:26:23 PM GMT+02:00, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:37:10 +0900,
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > > The increase happens only once per function in question.  So we
> make a
> > > dummy call in advance so later calls may not cause the increase in
> > > unpredicable timings.
> > 
> > Can these dummy calls be made just before we call setrlimit in
> > init_process_emacs, as opposed to in a macOS-specific source file?
> 
> The functions in question are used together with Mac-specific GUI
> event handing.  I placed the dummy calls inside macOS-specific code so
> the -nw case may not change the behavior from the original one.

We could condition the code in process.c by the aporopriate NS preprocessor condition to make it take effect only in GUI sessions.