From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: trentbuck@gmail.com, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Trent W. Buck] Segfault: emacs -batch -Q -eval '(format-mode-line mode-line-format)'
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:55:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4727B668.10507@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ImQoO-0000Il-Qy@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> [I sent this message a few weeks ago but did not get a response.
> Could we get the discussion moving again?]
>
> Would someone please fix this then ack?
>
Fixed by making format-mode-line ignore the format specifier and return
an empty string in noninteractive mode.
The problem was due to parts of the frame object not being initialized,
because init_display is not called in noninteractive mode. I don't know
if this underlying problem will cause similar crashes elsewhere.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 19:19 [Trent W. Buck] Segfault: emacs -batch -Q -eval '(format-mode-line mode-line-format)' Sven Joachim
2007-10-21 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-29 9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 22:55 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
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