Subject: Re: bug#56528: 29.0.50; Emacs lucid segfaults when X dies

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:21:23 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> I don't think so.  That frame is not a real frame, it cannot be used
> for anything real.

And that causes `selected-frame' to become nil?  Isn't that the worse
evil?

> I very much doubt that any such "solution" can survive the code churn
> we have every day.  IMNSHO, we shouldn't try.

But in practice it seems to work well enough.  At least, there haven't
been major problems (aside from GTK) since Emacs 19.29.

Thanks.