Bug 5476

Summary:	emacs dumps core due to buffer overflow in Xlib
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Quinn <trq>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Thomas Quinn 1999-10-03 00:26:52 UTC

If emacs loses its connection to the X server, either by
shutting down the server or giving the emacs window a
"XKillClient", it will dump core.  This occurs because emacs
tries to clean up, but ends up overflowing the communication
buffer to the X server.  I will submit a sample patch.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-01-24 21:55:59 UTC

patch added for next release.