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bug#63589: [PATCH] 29.0.91; crash after creating graphical frames via em


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#63589: [PATCH] 29.0.91; crash after creating graphical frames via emacsclient when compiled with cairo-xcb
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 14:40:54 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: 63589@debbugs.gnu.org,  tmdmelo@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 19:17:44 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Was this bug reported to the relevant Cairo developers?
> 
> I will get to that soon.
> 
> > It's OK, but please also add to NEWS some short notice about this
> > option and its potential pitfalls, which explain why it is off by
> > default.  Perhaps also about its advantages, so that users could make
> > up their minds.
> 
> The advantage is that it is moderately faster when Emacs is running over
> the network.

OK, so let's mention that in NEWS.

> > What is the kind of situations in which these crashes could happen?
> 
> Precisely that described in this bug report: when displays are closed
> and reopened within a short time period.

What kind of user-level situations could cause this?  Is invoking
emacsclient soon after deleting the last visible frame the only one?
And what does "short time period" mean, quantitatively? milliseconds?
seconds? minutes?






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