Subject: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:50:08 -0700

On 06/28/2013 05:20 AM, Ken Brown wrote:

>  #ifndef CANNOT_DUMP
> +#ifdef CYGWIN
> +  if (! noninteractive)
> +#else
>    if (! noninteractive || initialized)
>  #endif
> +#endif

I'm dubious about this proposal.

If there's an obscure race-condition bug during bootstrapping
that makes Emacs crash, why isn't it plausible that a similar
bug could occur during normal operation?  Bootstrapping is
a more-intense activity that could well be more likely to
trigger races, but isn't it more plausible that the races
could occur at any time?