From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug in shell.el: explicit-bash-args does not work for bash 1.x Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:42:42 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210291442.g9TEgg915688@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035902777 5040 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 14:46:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186XdI-0001J9-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:46:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186Xhx-0006s5-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:51:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186XaQ-0006YR-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186Xa0-0006Sw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186XZv-0006SY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186XZv-0006SU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9TEgg915688; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:42:42 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8897 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8897 > > There is no strong reason, but one of the recent problem I came > > across in this area is that process operations don't work properly during > > dumping (the handling of sigchld is explicitly not turned on because > > it can supposedly prevent unexec from working right). > > > > That prevents byte-compiling ediff with temacs, for example, because > > ediff runs `patch' (IIRC) while loading one of its .el files. > > Perhaps there's a need for some new `eval-*' form that would not run at > dump time? Why bother: you can already test `purify-flag'. Stefan