Problems with Xemacs

Thomas Pfaff tpfaff@gmx.net
Mon Oct 13 12:35:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:34:15AM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> 
>>Some users recently reported problems with xemacs and subprocesses.
>>I had some problems too (mostly clipboard related) that went away after 
>>i disabled the CreateWindowStation stuff in fhandler_tty (by setting 
>>pty_needs_alloc_console to false for all windows versions).
>>
> Does the current CVS version work any better?  I added a check for
> the existence of a window station.  It's still not a perfect solution
> but I was wondering if this made the xemacs clipboard problem go
> away.

Looks good.

Since every window station has its own clipboard the patch definitely 
fixed this problem. And the broken pty connection between parent and 
child process which was reported by some users is also cured.

Thomas



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