From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: crash: x_error_quitter
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:36:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iraxipgl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abw9ty8n.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat\, 12 May 2007 19\:31\:52 -0400")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> This is Yet Another Unnecessary X Protocol Error Crash, probably the
>> 5th or 6th one to date. As I've said many times, it's not necessary
>> for Emacs to crash on X protocol errors, since they are not fatal
>> errors, and can occur on misconfigured X servers. The only reason to
>> crash is to annoy the user.
>>
>> The reason we make this crash is so we can find the causes and fix them.
>
> Except I don't think we've found a single legitimate bug this way.
> Every time this comes up, we just end up adding yet another call to
> x_catch_error. Since X "protocol errors" are really more like warning
> messages (as opposed to X "fatal errors"), I don't envision any other
> situation cropping up.
Anyway, I have indeed added yet another call to x_catch_error to the
branch and the trunk.
I also hereby dub Yet Another Uncaught X Error Crash === YAUXEC
(apologies to Stefan).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 18:05 crash: x_error_quitter sds
2007-05-11 18:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-11 18:56 ` Sam Steingold
2007-05-12 16:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-11 20:02 ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-12 6:51 ` Jan Djärv
2007-05-12 16:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-12 23:31 ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-12 23:36 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-05-13 13:29 ` Jan Djärv
2007-05-13 13:41 ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-13 13:00 ` Jan Djärv
2007-05-13 13:52 ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-13 15:33 ` Jan Djärv
2007-05-14 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-14 8:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-15 9:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-15 9:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-16 1:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-16 6:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-16 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-16 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-16 21:42 ` David Kastrup
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