[Bug: 21.5-b31] Crash in timeout handling code.

[robert delius royar]

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 (14:56 +0900 UTC) Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> robert delius royar writes:
>
> > There used to be a problem in X11 (OS X) when a network transition
> > occurred during sleep (i.e. the Mac goes to sleep with one IP and wakes
> > to find it has another IP). Individual programs or the entire xserver
> > would crash.
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> I don't see how remote clients could avoid crashing -- the X server
> goes away, but the X server needs to be robust to that.
>
> I-guess-I-haven't-seen-it-because-Rust-Never-Sleeps-ly y'rs,

To be more specific, the crashes would occur on a machine where the 
server was on the machine where the transition occurred and the clients 
were also.

I never see this with my MBP (just in the past with my old PowerBook). 
So the problem seems to have been fixed soon after Jeremy took over 
maintaining X11.