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31.0.50; with-native-compilation=aot breaks exec -a emacs

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Message #23 received at 73318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, acorallo <at> gnu.org,
 73318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73318: 31.0.50;
 with-native-compilation=aot breaks exec -a emacs
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:31:25 +0300

> From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:22:18 -0400
> Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 73318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 
> 	acorallo <at> gnu.org
> I think the kind of "unreliability" in question is, for example, when a process starts and unlinks itself. I doubt
> Emacs will ever do this. Using the proc file system is "technically" unreliable, unable to cover 100% of all
> potential cases, but is practically reliable, especially in this case.

I don't remember the details, sorry.  You are welcome to look up the
past discussions in the archives.  I think they were triggered by look
up of the pdumper file, but the results of that are also used by the
code which decides where to look for the *.eln files.

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