GNU bug report logs - #53871
29.0.50; Emacs freezes with new child-frame option

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, arash <at> gnu.org, tsdh <at> gnu.org, 53871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53871: 29.0.50; Emacs freezes with new child-frame option
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 08:41:49 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> How come we don't see something similar in any other code that creates
> child frames?  Scrolling via the scroll bars is possible while some
> Lisp creates child frames not necessarily in this context.  Are our
> frame creation so fragile that it doesn't tolerate scroll bars in
> parallel with frame creation?

FWIW, I don't think it's a bug in our generic frame creation code since
I can't reproduce the bug on Haiku, where there is a thread for each
window, and we do a similar dance with sending messages to them from the
main thread and waiting for replies.

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