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-rw-r--r--src/emacs.c5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index cd98ec04aa4..a86a23e7c0b 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-06-02 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
+
+ * emacs.c (main): Warn when starting a GTK emacs in daemon mode.
+
2011-06-01 YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
* fringe.c (update_window_fringes): Don't update overlay arrow bitmap
diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index e515f7ec6fa..eaeeb35d587 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -1120,6 +1120,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
}
#ifndef NS_IMPL_COCOA
+#ifdef USE_GTK
+ fprintf (stderr, "\nWarning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug\nhttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715\n\
+Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.\n\
+Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem.\n");
+#endif
f = fork ();
#else /* NS_IMPL_COCOA */
/* Under Cocoa we must do fork+exec as CoreFoundation lib fails in