Re: master 63d084d4e4: Fix encoding and decoding of process I/O in Eshell on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:05:20 +0200
> 
>     Eli> Now let me turn the table and ask you why is :coding preferred, in
>     Eli> your opinion?
> 
> Because weʼve had bugs where coding-system-for-read/write was used,
> and processes created further down the call chain would use it, and by
> the time they did its value had changed, which would have been avoided
> by using :coding (I seem to remember an issue with an invocation of
> gpg, although I wouldnʼt be surprised if there was some asynchronicity
> involved as well)

But that's in no way a general preference, just a practical
consideration.  And the kind of problems you mention don't exist in
this case.