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bug#7979: 24.0.50; emacs loops when it loses an emacsclient connection
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Robert Marshall |
Subject: |
bug#7979: 24.0.50; emacs loops when it loses an emacsclient connection |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Feb 2011 19:22:07 +0000 |
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Glenn Morris wrote:
> robert marshall wrote:
>
>> If I ssh onto the machine running an emacs instance and connect
>> using emacsclient -c and the ssh connection goes down, the emacs
>> instance becomes unresponsive,
>
> Sounds like the long-standing issue from etc/PROBLEMS:
>
> ** When Emacs is compiled with Gtk+, closing a display kills
> Emacs.
> [...] Thus, for instance, when Emacs is run as a server on a
> text terminal, and an X frame is created, and the X server for
> that frame crashes or exits unexpectedly, Emacs must exit to
> prevent a GTK error that would result in an endless loop.
>
> Although yours is looping when it should be exiting...
>
>> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
>> of 2011-02-03 on faure.capuchin.co.uk
It does indeed - though the text in my problems file says
** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ may loop forever if a display crashes.
which appears to exactly match what I see
The bug can - I think - be closed as a known issue
Robert
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