GNU bug report logs - #60220
29.0.60; macOS 13.1 crash shortly after starting Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 60220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, aaronjensen <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#60220: 29.0.60; macOS 13.1 crash shortly after starting Emacs
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:05:55 -0800

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On 12/22/22 00:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Paul, could you perhaps audit the code which implements restart-emacs,
> and see if we need to make it safer, in particular wrt signals and
> *.eln files loaded via dynlib.

I don't offhand see why anything would need to be done other than turn 
off timer signals to the execed process. Something like the attached 
patch, perhaps. Aaron, could you give it a try?

[0001-Fix-restart-emacs-alarms-Bug-60220.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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