Subject: Re: bug#38453: Error out if dumping while interactive?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:04:07 +0200

> From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:51:55 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > AFAICT Fdump_emacs explicitly checks for this:
> >
> > >  if (! noninteractive)
> > >    error ("Dumping Emacs works only in batch mode");
> >
> > Maybe Fdump_emacs_portable should do the same… or maybe the check should
> > be moved somewhere in loadup.el?
> 
> Sounds reasonable, I've now fixed with with commit e7edba42c8.

I think it's misguided, since we intend to lift this limitation in
some future release.