Re: Finding the dump

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 27 2019, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:44:48 +0100
>> 
>> On Jan 26 2019, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > OK, but are there practical use cases that you know of where this
>> > could happen as part of a user or a "sane" program invoking Emacs?
>> 
>> The wrapper script on openSUSE does that, for example.
>> 
>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/emacs/emacs.sh?expand=1
>
> I guess scripts like that will need to use the --dump-file
> command-line argument.

Having to use --dump-file is awkward.  It would be better if emacs used
a unique name for the dump file.

Andreas.

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