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Re: Crash force-deleting the only frame


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Crash force-deleting the only frame
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:33:51 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Okay, I looked at this, and now I'm not sure there's any bug.  If you
> specify an --eval command-line arg that deletes the only frame, what
> else could Emacs possibly do other than abort execution?

IMHO there are two options:

- refuse to delete the frame despite FORCE,
- exit gracefully.

> "Fatal error (6)Aborted" is an abort; it's not really a crash.

An abort is still a crash (and you'll get a core dump when enabled).

Andreas.

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