Subject: bug#36649: 27.0.50; pure space and pdumper

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:18:06 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:41:28 -0700
> Cc: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], 
> 	[email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], 
> 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> I doubt whether it's worth spending much time debugging the problem,
> >> since nobody uses unexec on GNU/Linux any more.
> >
> > Since we decided not to remove unexec in Emacs 28, we do need to keep
> > the unexec configuration working.
> 
> Should we consider removing unexec in Emacs 29?

That's possible, but we still have plenty of time before we get to the
decision point, and have no information at all regarding whether
unexec is still used with Emacs 28 (because it wasn't released yet).
So it's too early to make the decision, and we have no data on which
to base the decision.