From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Cc: 3399@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
Shannon Jones <cz2s20d02@sneakemail.com>
Subject: bug#3399: Crash in multi-TTY mode
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:37:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wkcnhqs.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wlk53xkazu.wl%mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> (YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu's message of "Sun, 31 May 2009 16:05:57 +0900")
>>> I'd prefer the conservative "maybe leaking" one at this stage as I
>>> said first in
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-05/msg00263.html.
>> The main problem with this is that the "maybe" is "in 99% of the
>> cases", since only ancient versions of libX11 free the database.
> But even with the newer libX11, we can't avoid both memory leaks (Case
> 2) and crash (Case 3) without a "hideous" workaround or a nontrivial
> change in the display initialization. Also, the situation before my
> recent change was also "maybe leaking" for GTK+. I think this is
> acceptable enough for Emacs 23.1.
Yes, maybe the leak is the least-bad of the options we have, as you said.
>>> The third non-crashing non-hideous way would be to associate the
>>> created database before any call to XGetDefault so it may not set
>>> the XlibDisplayDfltRMDB flag. That will require reordering in the
>>> display initialization and we can try it after the release.
>> BTW, is there any hope that the bug in libX11 will be fixed any time
>> soon (not that it will save us, but at least I'd like to make sure
>> that we're not stuck with such painful workarounds indefinitely).
> There's no response so far, and I'm not sure how bug reports are
> usually dealt with in X.org. Actually, I created my bugzilla account
> in freedesktop.org for this bug.
OK, thanks for reporting it,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 2:44 bug#3399: Crash in multi-TTY mode Shannon Jones
2009-05-27 8:27 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-27 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-28 0:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-28 1:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-28 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-29 3:58 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-29 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-30 2:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-30 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-31 7:05 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-06-01 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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