From thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de  Fri May  6 15:14:11 2005
From: thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Thomas Friedrichsmeier)
Date: Fri May  6 15:12:23 2005
Subject: [Rd] Embedding x11-window causes R to segfault
Message-ID: <200505061514.12029.thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

Hi,

I know it's not generally helpful to just restate a bug-report already in the 
tracker. But I also know that sometimes old bug-reports just slip past 
attention. Hence I'd like to point out this antique report:

http://r-bugs.biostat.ku.dk/cgi-bin/R/System-specific?id=848;user=guest

I'm currently running into this bug, as I'm trying to embed an R window 
generated with x11 () into a window of my application. Doing so causes R to 
segfault. I'm no x11 guru at all, but the bug report referenced gives a 
plausible explanation of what might be the cause.
That bug-report also contains a patch to fix the issue. For all I can see, 
that patch should still be applicable to current sources with only minimal 
adaptations (DevDesc -> newDevDesc, etc.).
Is there any chance this will be taken care of in one of the next releases? Or 
are there issues that make inclusion in soon-to-come releases unlikely? I'm 
asking, as in the latter case, I'd have to look into different solutions for 
my application.

Thanks!
Thomas Friedrichsmeier


[Rd] Embedding x11-window causes R to segfault
Thomas Friedrichsmeier