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Re: master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon


From: Sean Whitton
Subject: Re: master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon warning message on PGTK.
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:49:04 -0700
User-agent: Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Hello,

On Thu 07 Apr 2022 at 08:28am +08, Po Lu wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Nice idea to avoid referring users to a bug report that doesn't apply to
>> pgtk.  But is there truly "no way to fix this problem" in the pgtk case
>> too?  Is it really that fundamental to the design of GTK3?
>
> Yes, 100%.  GDK just calls `_exit' on an IO error.  You cannot even run
> an atexit handler.
>
> And since we don't have control over Xlib when built with PGTK, there's
> no way to run code before GDK's own IO error handler either.

Thanks.  I'd like to install the attached patch to preempt questions
like mine; any objections?  I still have some stuff in my init.el based
on the hope that this could be fixed; I'll probably remove it now :(

-- 
Sean Whitton

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