Re: Should (buffer-list) ever return killed buffers?

[Sergey Organov]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>>> I strongly suspect that the problem goes as follows:
>>> - buffer-list returns a list of buffers that are all live (i.e. no bug
>>>    there).
>
> I strongly doubt that.  For me the reason is that `buffer-list' runs
> FOR_EACH_TAIL_INTERNAL with third argument true which may quit.  The
> earlier mentioned "And how running from a timer could be involved?"
> should explain what happens then.
>
>>> - while processing that list, some of its buffers die.
>>> So I think the bug is in `desktop-clear` which should skip buffers that
>>> have died between the call to `buffer-list` and the moment we get to
>>> process them.
>
> We should fix `buffer-list' appropriately.  IIUC it's broken anyway with
> a non-nil FRAME argument - it nowhere checks whether the buffers on
> FRAME's buffer list and buried buffer list are live.
>
>> +    (unless (or (nill bufname)
>                    ^^^^

Yep, that's needs to be (null bufname), obviously. Messed it when
re-typed code from another PC where I've tested it, sorry!

-- Sergey