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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Finding the dump
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:12:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1ipx3jq.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9525903ee835343b568988c3c6d5858.squirrel@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:27:52 -0800")

On Jan 27 2019, "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:

>> On Jan 27 2019, "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>>
>>> There's some confusion on this thread. argv[0] *is* reliable
>>
>> Nope.  The caller can set argv[0] to any string.  It is in not required
>> to be related to the name of the executable in any way.
>
> Sure, but such callers are holding it wrong. If you set argv[0] to some
> random string unrelated to Emacs, you break startup. That's fine.

No, emacs should not depend on the contents on argv[0].  There is no
need to do that.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-27 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-23 13:15 Finding the dump Stefan Monnier
2019-01-23 13:46 ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-23 15:13   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-23 13:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-23 15:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-23 15:37     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-23 15:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-23 16:07   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-23 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-23 16:02   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-23 16:04   ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-23 16:38   ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-23 17:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 12:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 15:03         ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-26 15:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 15:44             ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-26 17:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 20:44                 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 15:20                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-27 15:46                     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 15:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-27 16:37                         ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 16:56                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-27 17:00                             ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 18:26                           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-27 18:46                             ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 18:58                               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27 19:27                               ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-27 19:42                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-28  1:06                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-27 20:12                                 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-01-27 21:25                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-27 21:37                                     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 23:47                                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-28  0:32                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28  1:21                                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-28  1:29                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28 19:03                                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-01-28 19:23                                               ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-28 23:09                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-29  8:50                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2019-01-31  2:21                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-02-01  0:23                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-01  2:09                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-02-02  3:25                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-02  7:23                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-03  4:36                                                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-01  7:22                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-02  3:25                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-02  7:22                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-03  4:36                                                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-01-28  3:38                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28  4:13                                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-28  6:28                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28 15:35                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 15:57                                               ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-28 16:02                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28 17:39                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-28 19:46                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28  8:53                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-28 12:57                                           ` Fu Yuan
2019-01-28 15:41                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 18:20                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-28 19:53                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 22:30                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27  9:55           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27 10:32             ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 10:44               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27 10:54                 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-01-27 15:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-27 18:52                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27 19:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-27 18:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-26 17:27         ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-01-26 17:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 18:05             ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-01-26 18:13               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 20:05                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-01-26 20:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-01-30  3:00 Van L

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