From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New tool to reduce emacs start-up time on Linux Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:36:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36578"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, raman@google.com To: Blake Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 04:37:37 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jvAp7-0009OF-1j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 04:37:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41218 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvAp6-0006Ni-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvAoS-0005th-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvAoR-0002Pq-S9; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jvAoP-0000nI-Sn; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:36:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Blake Miller on Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:01:55 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252938 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'd never run emacs as root either. CRIU has to run as root, but the > processes it creates when restoring a snapshot are regular non-root > processes, just like the one that was checkpointed. Based on this, Emacs could perhaps, in principle, use CRIU _when_ it is installed in the system. But CRIU can't replace the existing undumping facility, since users must be able to build and dump Emacs in their own directories too. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)