GNU bug report logs - #56528
29.0.50; Emacs lucid segfaults when X dies

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Message #114 received at 56528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 56528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, visuweshm <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#56528: 29.0.50; Emacs lucid segfaults when X dies
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:21:23 +0800

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

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