Subject: bug#77389: 31.0.50; Restarting Emacs with (kill-emacs ... t) looses noninteractivity

From: Jens Schmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 21:54:16 +0200

On 2025-04-04  12:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> - sysdep.c refers to initial_argv[0] in function emacs_perror
>>   and it seems it does so for Windows as well.  What should I
>>   do about that one?  Use simply constant "emacs"?  Or the
>>   result of w32_my_exename (plus any required coding system
>>   conversion)?
> 
> Why does this matter?  Your patch doesn't eliminate initial_argv, so
> initial_argv[0] still holds the name of the Emacs program, albeit only
> in the form it was provided by the calling shell.  Right?  If so, then
> for reporting errors (and ones that should never happen at that), I
> don't see any need to jump through hoops.

But my patch, at least the second one [1] on message #20
of this bug, plus your earlier request to #ifdef away
function and call to copy_raw_args on Windows, would skip
the initialization of initial_argv on Windows, no?

[1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=77389;filename=0001-Use-raw-argv-as-passed-into-main-to-restart-Emacs-alternative.patch;msg=20