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bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 02:40:51 +0900 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello all,
Really sorry about this ugly regression :-/.
I'm surprised that a 22000 characters in an environment variable would
be an issue though, given that that's probably around 22 KiB of memory
and some people tested huge variables (>18 MiB) without facing any hard
limit other than RAM [0].
Which leads me to suspect that the problem might be Gnome specific? I
haven't experienced it, but then my EMACSLOADPATH variable is only about
7000 characters and I'm not using Gnome (I use ratpoison as a WM).
If someone could confirm that they can login using another desktop
(XFCE, perhaps?) that'd tell us we need to look more carefully at what
gnome-session does and why it crashes on larger than average environment
variables.
I believe the "enhancement" #1 (to deprecate guix.d subdirectories) in
XFCE?) as explained in bug #38273 [1] could lead to a much leaner
EMACSLOADPATH, by reducing the number of entries necessary to refer to
all the Elisp packages.
[0] https://aplawrence.com/Unixart/variable_limits.html
[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38273#34
Maxim
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Maxim Cournoyer <=
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- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Clément Lassieur, 2019/11/27
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Clément Lassieur, 2019/11/26