Re: crash: x_error_quitter

[Jan Djärv]

Chong Yidong skrev:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > GNU Emacs 22.1.50.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> >  of 2007-05-08 on nyc-qws-005
> >
> > despite all my attempts emacs just died....
> > this happened when emacsclient tried to create a new frame.
>
> This is Yet Another Unnecessary X Protocol Error Crash, probably the
> 5th or 6th one to date.  As I've said many times, it's not necessary
> for Emacs to crash on X protocol errors, since they are not fatal
> errors, and can occur on misconfigured X servers.  The only reason to
> crash is to annoy the user.

We generally try to not crash.  If it still crashes it means that some code 
does not handle errors, and we need to find that code.  It can also be in the 
lucid part of the code, and then it may be harder to find.

That said, there certainly are X protocol errors Emacs should crash on, such 
as BadAlloc.

        Jan D.