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From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: sbaugh@janestreet.com, larsi@gnus.org, acorallo@gnu.org,
	73318@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73318: 31.0.50; with-native-compilation=aot breaks exec -a emacs
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:22:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN+1HbpyNwcypBLZ00ORdG13qTy_VfPJdZ9Fm9CmFM9A1hVcdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861q1iayk6.fsf@gnu.org>

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I think the kind of "unreliability" in question is, for example, when a
process starts and unlinks itself. I doubt Emacs will ever do this. Using
the proc file system is "technically" unreliable, unable to cover 100% of
all potential cases, but is practically reliable, especially in this case.

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 3:07 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:14:54 -0400
> > Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>, 73318@debbugs.gnu.org,
> larsi@gnus.org,
> >       acorallo@gnu.org
> >
> > Google's build system, gn, used for Chromium, et.al., has support for
> this which can provide some inspiration
> > for most of the major platforms on which Emacs runs; qv
> > https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/refs/heads/main/src/util/exe_path.cc
>
> Thanks.  That's exactly the method that I was told was unreliable on
> GNU/Linux.  I don't know enough to argue with people who said that
> about this particular feature.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-17 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-17 15:18 bug#73318: 31.0.50; with-native-compilation=aot breaks exec -a emacs Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-17 15:40 ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-17 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 18:14   ` Ship Mints
2024-09-17 19:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 19:22       ` Ship Mints [this message]
2024-09-17 19:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 22:31           ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-17 22:45             ` Ship Mints
2024-09-18 13:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  3:09               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-19 12:54                 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-19 13:44                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-19 13:51                     ` Ship Mints
2024-09-19 15:45                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-04 12:09               ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-04 12:51                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-04 13:22                   ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-04 13:57                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-04 14:02                       ` shipmints
2024-10-04 16:51                       ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-04 19:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-07 14:18                           ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-07 18:44                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-07 20:16                               ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-08 11:47                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-08 12:16                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-04 19:16                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-08 23:35                     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-09 12:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii

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