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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon warning message on PGTK.
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 23:16:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva6cx7ffv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tub5y5l8.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:45:07 +0800")

>> FWIW, I think "fundamental" is a bit strong here.  I don't see any
>> evidence that the design of the API makes it impossible.  It seems more
>> like a problem with the current implementation
> I think the problem is quite fundamental to the current implementation
> of GDK:

Fundamental to the implementation means that it can be fixed without
changing the design of the API ;-)

> lots of stuff is left unfreed when a display is programmatically
> disconnected as-is, and freeing even that typically requires a working
> connection to the display server.  Which is unattainable when a display
> disconnects due to an IO error.

I suspect it's worse than that, since "left unfreed" would just lead to
memory leaks, which I suspect could be tolerable (and in any case
much better than what we have now).


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-07  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <164921225790.11115.15669298143254852205@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220406023058.315C7C009A8@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-04-06 15:37   ` master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon warning message on PGTK Sean Whitton
2022-04-06 15:44     ` Robert Pluim
2022-04-06 18:45       ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-06 20:12         ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-07  0:32           ` Po Lu
2022-04-07  0:28     ` Po Lu
2022-04-07  0:49       ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-07  1:02         ` Po Lu
2022-04-07  2:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-07  2:45           ` Po Lu
2022-04-07  3:16             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-04-07  5:32               ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-07 23:04                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-08  4:09                   ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-08  5:29                     ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-08  6:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-08 14:06                         ` Sean Whitton

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