Re: GTK3 Emacs

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 05 Jul 2011, Chong Yidong wrote:

>> The problem perists sadly. I did get the same warning also.

> That's because the warning comes from a workaround in the Emacs
> sources, which kills Emacs rather than allowing it to loop forever.

In xterm.c, function x_connection_closed(), if I got it right.

> To test this properly, you need to remove that workaround and see if
> Emacs now recovers gracefully, or whether it still loops forever.

When the X connection is lost, e.g. by logging out the user, Emacs
will loop, taking all available CPU time.

Tested with revision 104968 (BZR trunk as of today) and GTK+ 3.0.11 on
an x86_64 GNU/Linux system.

Ulrich