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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 15794@debbugs.gnu.org, gundaetiapo@gmail.com
Subject: bug#15794: Core dump after SIGTERM during GC marking
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:41:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2mh9ydm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3gq2dpr.fsf@igel.home>

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:37:04 +0100
> Cc: 15794@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > #60 0x00000000004ecaa5 in deliver_process_signal (sig=15, handler=0x4ebc30 <handle_fatal_signal>) at sysdep.c:1597
> >         old_errno = 11
> >         on_main_thread = true
> > #61 <signal handler called>
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #62 string_intervals (s=57280353) at lisp.h:3129
> > No locals.
> > #63 mark_object (arg=<optimized out>) at alloc.c:5957
> >         ptr = <optimized out>
> >         ptrx = <optimized out>
> >         obj = 59121106
> >         cdr_count = 0
> 
> The signal was received during GC.  Shouldn't its handling be postponed
> then?

Maybe.  But then it would be impossible to kill Emacs during a runaway
GC in a way that would cause Emacs to auto-save, wouldn't it?

Perhaps a better alternative would be to avoid running kill-emacs-hook
in this case?





  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-03 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-03  4:28 bug#15794: Core dump after SIGTERM during GC marking Barry OReilly
2013-11-03  6:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-03 17:41   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-11-03 18:03     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-03 19:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-03 20:29         ` Barry OReilly
2013-11-03 20:39           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-03 20:42           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-03 22:22         ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-04  3:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-04  8:56             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-04 16:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-04 16:18                 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-05 15:27                   ` Barry OReilly
2013-11-05 15:53                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 16:52                       ` Barry OReilly
2013-11-05 17:16                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 14:00                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-11-03 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii

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