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29.0.50; Emacs lucid segfaults when X dies

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 56528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, visuweshm <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#56528: 29.0.50; Emacs lucid segfaults when X dies
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:18:08 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: visuweshm <at> gmail.com,  56528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:26:58 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The reason seems to be that the selected-frame wasn't changed to be a
> > valid usable frame.
> 
> Right, but under daemon mode, shouldn't `delete_frame' eventually select
> the initial frame?

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

> > But I wonder how the above is different from simply crashing.
> 
> When there are multiple terminals, it allows suriving the disconnect of
> a single terminal.

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

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