From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs crashes Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:35:49 -0500 Message-ID: <87y7zcogju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <17429.54459.803236.351040@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142372243 26201 80.91.229.2 (14 Mar 2006 21:37:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 14 22:37:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJHBo-0004xG-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:36:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJHBn-0006Gd-Re for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:36:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJHBb-0006Ee-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJHBX-00069H-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJHBX-00068z-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.19.6.82] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJHFX-000678-3N; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:40:15 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CBD4B12079C; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:35:49 -0500 (EST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:47:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51630 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > True, but if you go back another week, there are some quite fundamental > changes in the way X errors are handled -- which I think is more likely > to be the cause of these problems... >> >> It would also be useful if people make a checkout of the March 1 sources >> and edit with them for a while, to verify that they indeed do not crash. >> > > I will do that. If it seems likely that the X error handler changes are at fault, I can revert them. I have a pretty good idea how to fix the crashes they were originally meant to address in a different, less intrusive way (the idea is to make those functions that call x_catch_errors in a signal handler instead call XSetErrorHandler to install a temporary "ignore all errors" handler.) Unfortunately, I have not been able to experience these crashes myself.