Re: That old GTK bug

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11.12.2019 13:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On December 11, 2019 12:17:33 PM GMT+02:00, "Per Starbäck" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > That old GTK bug about recovering from disconnects,
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221 , which has been a
> > problem for Emacs users for years and years, was closed four months
> > ago because it is "ridiculous". I don't know if that affects if and
> > how Emacs should try to mitigate this further, but thought it could be
> > interesting, and I don't think it has been mentioned here.
>
> Thanks for letting us know.
>
> I may be missing something, but I fail to see how such "closing" of a bug is 
> significant, let alone useful for resolving the original issue.

I think the last comment might also be implying that our problem could 
now be caused by the abort() call it mentions that we keep around for 
GTK 2 compatibility.

(It's really not my area, so please disregard at will.)