From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Backport fix for bug #8855? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:25 -0500 Message-ID: <50AE3959.3030607@cornell.edu> References: <50AD56C9.5040100@cornell.edu> <50AD69CA.70209@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353595265 5665 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2012 14:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Stefan Monnier , Emacs Development To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 15:41:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TbXxo-0005dK-R4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbXxd-0001E5-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbXxX-00019B-Fx for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbXxO-0004FN-5z for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from limestone3.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.163]:64999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbXxN-0004E2-EC for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:46 -0500 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.143]) by limestone3.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAMEedSs016390 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAMEekGw001308; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id qAMEeYnx015153 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:40:34 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <50AD69CA.70209@cs.ucla.edu> X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.395186, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.11.22.143330 X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Thu Nov 22 09:40:35 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 128.253.83.163 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155039 Archived-At: On 11/21/2012 6:54 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/21/2012 02:33 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> Is there any chance of backporting the fix for bug #8855 to the emacs-24 branch? > > The backport is easy; I created a patch and you can see it in > . > > This bug has been there for a while, so as I understand it the > fix normally would wait until the next version since we're in a > freeze. But if the bug has become more annoying recently perhaps > there's enough justification for putting the fix into emacs-24. This is obviously up to Stefan and Chong. I can't honestly say the bug has become more annoying recently. It's been annoying for a long time, and I was very glad that you fixed it. In my experience, the bug only shows up if I start emacs without a D-Bus daemon running. I suspect most GNU/Linux users always have a daemon running when they start emacs under X, so they aren't aware of the bug. The reason for my request that you backport the fix is that I've been thinking ahead to the release of emacs-24.3 for the Cygwin distribution. Cygwin users are probably not accustomed to starting a D-Bus daemon, so I will need to do something. If Stefan and Chong decide that the fix should not be backported, I'll probably just apply the fix locally to my Cygwin build. Ken