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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> FWIW, I think "fundamental" is a bit strong here.  I don't see any
>> evidence that the design of the API makes it impossible.  It seems more
>> like a problem with the current implementation
> I think the problem is quite fundamental to the current implementation
> of GDK:

Fundamental to the implementation means that it can be fixed without
changing the design of the API ;-)

> lots of stuff is left unfreed when a display is programmatically
> disconnected as-is, and freeing even that typically requires a working
> connection to the display server.  Which is unattainable when a display
> disconnects due to an IO error.

I suspect it's worse than that, since "left unfreed" would just lead to
memory leaks, which I suspect could be tolerable (and in any case
much better than what we have now).


        Stefan