Subject: Re: bug#46881: 28.0.50; pdumper dumping causes way too many syscalls

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 11:35:31 -0800

On 3/2/21 11:35 PM, Pip Cet wrote:
> IIUC, the prohibition on calling malloc, if it is still a concern,
> applies only when loading the dump, not while writing it.

That's my understanding as well.

> My main concern is the possibility of a partly-written dump file,
> since we no longer turn "!UMPEDGNUEMACS" into "DUMPEDGNUEMACS" after
> the dump. Maybe it would make sense to restore that feature?

Wouldn't hurt, though I'd make it low priority.