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Re: Crash recovery strategies


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Crash recovery strategies
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:40:54 +0200

> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:51:13 -0800
> 
> How would moving to C help? Keep in mind that we're talking about fork
> *and exec*, so the parent and child don't share memory. They can,
> however, communicate over a pipe.

Communicating over a pipe means encoding/decoding stuff, which
allocates memory, temporary buffers, and can potentially run Lisp.
It's IMO unwise to do that in a crashed session.



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