Subject: Re: bug#66743: 30.0.50; Crash when dumping reftex

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:04:54 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:14:08 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> See the attached patch.
> >
> > If you are suggesting this for upstream, then it's not optimal, at
> > least in interactive session: the stderr stream is usually redirected
> > to some bottomless OS pit where no one could see it.
> 
> `dump-emacs-portable' does not work in interactive sessions:

And we don't want it to work?

>   if (! noninteractive)
>     error ("Dumping Emacs currently works only in batch mode.  "
>            "If you'd like it to work interactively, please consider "
>            "contributing a patch to Emacs.");
> 
> If you mean that `dump-emacs-portable' should be made interactive, it is
> a much harder task as many emacs_abort (); calls in pdumper.c would need
> to be changed to something suitable for interactive sessions.

And then we will need to remember to change this fprintf as well?