Re: Bug#23924 - crashes on next OS X release

[Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>]

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I'll push it to emacs-25 tonight.

Thanks.

On 3 August 2016 at 08:07, Marius Kjeldahl <marius.kjeldahl@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, I'm one of the testers I guess. I spend more or less all day with
> Emacs, and before applying the patch I had several crashes a day, and after
> zero. However, it's a hard bug to pin down (some kind of timing/racing
> condition I suspect). Accordingly there is no simple test case that can be
> applied that I am aware of. Based on the short time between the last two
> macOS beta releases (3 and 4) and the fact that the last version barely had
> any "change notes", I suspect macOS release is getting close. I would feel
> a lot more comfortable if all modern distributions of Emacs on macOS had
> this patch in rather than not. When/if we manage to pin it down with a
> reliable test case, a real fix of this or the underlying issue should be
> easier, but until then I vote to get the patch in ASAP. Additionally the
> patch only affects macOS users so the breakage potential should be small
> (at least compared to daily crashes which is the alternative).
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 at 04:39 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> > From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
>> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Emacs-Devel devel <
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> > Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:25:10 -0700
>> >
>> > >>>>> Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
>> >
>> > > Hi John, are you OK with the patch?
>> >
>> > Yes, I am OK with the patch. Eli?
>>
>> If all those affected by the problem agree it's TRT, I'm OK with it
>> going to emacs-25.
>>
>>


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Alan Third

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