Re: Finding the dump

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 23 2019, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

>   This is because I run my Emacs via a symlink, and load_pdump is not
>   careful to try and follow symlinks while looking for the .pdmp next to
>   the executable.

Since argv[0] is almost never absolute, that route doesn't work anyway.
It's even a security bug, since it happily loads a (possibly
manipulated) dump file from the current directory if it has the right
hash.

Andreas.

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