Subject: Re: 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 14:38:32 +0200

On January 29, 2020 1:09:16 PM GMT+02:00, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, preprocessor condition is not TRT, we should have a runtime test that limits these dummy calls to GUI sessions.

My point is that having this code in the same place for all platforms is better for long-range maintenance.