Subject: Re: bug#63589: [PATCH] 29.0.91; crash after creating graphical frames via emacsclient when compiled with cairo-xcb

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 19:17:44 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Was this bug reported to the relevant Cairo developers?

I will get to that soon.

> It's OK, but please also add to NEWS some short notice about this
> option and its potential pitfalls, which explain why it is off by
> default.  Perhaps also about its advantages, so that users could make
> up their minds.

The advantage is that it is moderately faster when Emacs is running over
the network.

> What is the kind of situations in which these crashes could happen?

Precisely that described in this bug report: when displays are closed
and reopened within a short time period.