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From: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 56487@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56487: xgselect race condition leading to abort when USE_GTK not defined
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:09:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+G3_PN==03yKtR-=jDp8qU9PY2Dfx4t6bbudLSxdhzL3ARMCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7xwymwr.fsf@yahoo.com>

> So I suggest that someone find that problem instead.  Any attempt to
> "fix" a race condition by moving code around so that the timings are
> slightly different is simply deluding oneself.

I agree. However that means that the current GTK implementation is
itself fundamentally broken/inadequate. Bringing the other toolkits up
to its level of brokenness seems reasonable in this case?





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-10 21:05 bug#56487: xgselect race condition leading to abort when USE_GTK not defined Tom Gillespie
2022-07-11  1:53 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-11  2:50   ` Tom Gillespie
2022-07-11  3:13     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-11  3:40       ` Tom Gillespie
2022-07-11 10:16         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-11 16:09           ` Tom Gillespie [this message]
2022-07-12  2:03             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12  2:20               ` Tom Gillespie
2022-07-12 12:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-15  5:09                   ` Tom Gillespie
2023-09-07 18:30                   ` Stefan Kangas

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