bug#27089: severe bug with XEmbedding

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

René Kuligowski <renekuligowski@alice-dsl.net> writes:

> just found somethind weird while being annoyed that I could not embed
> emacs-25.2-lucid into another window and played around with
> emacs-25.2-gtk2 (both compiled from the same tree):
>
> – if you use the *decimal* pwinid as parameter to --parent-id and a
>   GTK version of Emacs, you can embed Emacs into any X window which is
>  serving.
> – If you use the *hex* pwinid directly from a program’s output via an
>   intermediary file or a pipe, emacs crashes or exits with an X error.
> – If you use a non-GTK X version, emacs either exits with an X error
>   (hex ID) or it does not work at all (emacs 25.2-lucid hangs in an
>   infinite loop, doesn’t respond except to a SIGKILL and loads 35%
>   onto a CPU).
>
> Please fix whatever is broken or at least officially state the
> problem; this is not X embedding, but GTK specific, and should not be
> called „XEmbedding” while it is not.

(This bug report unfortunately didn't get any response at the time.)

Is this problem still present in more recent Emacs versions?  If so, do
you have a recipe to reproduce it, starting from "emacs -Q"?

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