From: Chetan Pandya <pandyacus@sbcglobal.net>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
stephen@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:54:48 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439922.58789.qm@web83205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49602FF9.2000001@gnu.org>
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> That is distinct from creating a frame on a different tty. The issue
> here is that creating a frame on a tty that Emacs does not already own
> can lead to corruption, because the process that owns that tty keeps
> drawing to it while Emacs is using it.
>
> Perhaps we should limit the ttys that Emacs will create frames on with
> make-frame-on-tty to ttys that Emacs already owns (either through
> emacsclient, or the tty that emacs -nw was started in). It is true that
> we don't limit displays in the same way, but X displays are designed to
> have multiple applications using them at a time, so we don't have the
> same problem there.
I don't see how the situation needs to be different for emacsclient. If emacsclient is waiting, so can the other process be. Isn't it the user's responsibility to make sure of that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-27 18:23 Terminology in multi-tty primitives Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-28 1:00 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-28 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-28 4:28 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-28 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-28 19:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-29 5:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-29 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29 22:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-30 2:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-30 22:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-31 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 2:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 6:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 21:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 21:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 21:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 22:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 23:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 16:38 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-31 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-01 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-02 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-03 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-04 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-04 3:29 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-04 3:41 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-04 4:54 ` Chetan Pandya [this message]
2008-12-30 22:27 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-31 5:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-31 6:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 8:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-31 14:18 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-31 15:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-28 17:29 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-28 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-30 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
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2008-12-27 18:16 Eli Zaretskii
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