GNU bug report logs - #56967
29.0.50; Frequent crashes under Wayland

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bjoern Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 07:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

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Message #77 received at 56967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 56967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de
Subject: Re: bug#56967: 29.0.50; Frequent crashes under Wayland
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:50:24 +0300
> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:40:36 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, 56967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de
> 
> > Does _exit in glibc provide any hooks that we could use?  Emacs cannot 
> > be the first application that doesn't want misbehaving libraries to 
> > forcibly exit it.
> 
> It's possible (albeit tricky) to escape an _exit() call by using 
> LD_PRELOAD, see attached example.  Whether this is usable for Emacs, I 
> don't know.

Interesting.  I'll defer to Linux experts to tell whether this is
something we could/should use.

Thanks.




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