Re: Bug in shell.el: explicit-bash-args does not work for bash 1.x

[Stefan Monnier]

> > There is no strong reason, but one of the recent problem I came
> > across in this area is that process operations don't work properly during
> > dumping (the handling of sigchld is explicitly not turned on because
> > it can supposedly prevent unexec from working right).
> > 
> > That prevents byte-compiling ediff with temacs, for example, because
> > ediff runs `patch' (IIRC) while loading one of its .el files.
> 
> Perhaps there's a need for some new `eval-*' form that would not run at 
> dump time?

Why bother: you can already test `purify-flag'.


        Stefan