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28.0.50; daemon segfaults when loading theme as second emacsclient connects

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From: Sam Brightman <sam.brightman <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43886: 28.0.50; daemon segfaults when loading theme as second emacsclient connects
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:27:02 +0100

Yes, that seems much better.

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 09:17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:21:44 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> > Cc: 43886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > However - even removing that hook - it is now impossible to
> > > load a theme when a client is suspended (which is basically always for
> > > me - I'll have half a dozen or more clients open at any time, one of
> > > them will be suspended).
> >
> > It is indeed impossible/unsafe to load a theme when some frame is
> > suspended, because suspending a frame makes it unable to handle the
> > change of the faces.  I don't see any way around that, because
> > skipping such a frame when a theme is enabled would mean that frame's
> > faces are not recalculated to obey the theme, which is a subtler and
> > nastier bug, IMO.
> >
> > You will have to unsuspend the frames when you load a theme.
>
> Upon further thought, I found a simpler, nicer solution for this
> conundrum, and pushed it to the emacs-27 branch.



-- 
sam brightman

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