From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fxz6fmt7.fsf@rho.meyering.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195573024 28134 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2007 15:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 16:37:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuV9h-0006p2-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:36:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV9U-0002YR-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV9Q-0002YB-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV9N-0002XI-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV9M-0002XD-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IuV9E-0006Eu-7a; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:24 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44BB2CF75D; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051A83FE0; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E3E596CAB3; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:12:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83718 Archived-At: >> When Emacs reads input in batch mode, does it do this decoding at all? >> I don't know. But since the input is coming from stdin, not from "the >> keyboard", I think it is wrong to do any such decoding. > I don't see why it would be wrong. It would be wrong to do > terminal-escape-sequence processing, but coding-system decoding on the > contrary seems like the right thing to do. > Could you explain the arguments for this? I don't know what to explain: if we assume the input (from stdin) to be "text" rather than "binary data", then there needs to be a decoding step. Maybe you should explain why you think there shouldn't be such a thing? Stefan