Re: `message' not outputting the newline "atomically"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:55:48 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > As I wrote earlier, people who want to avoid mixing messages in
> > parallel builds can use the GNU Make's -O option.  That does the job
> > without impacting the rest of Emacs in any way.
> 
> This behaviour isn't limited to makefiles -- anybody who uses Emacs to
> output data (from scripts and the like) will possibly see these
> intermittent glitches.

Only if more than one instance of Emacs is running in parallel, right?
Which is somewhat unusual for scripts.

If someone wants to implement an optional feature that will have the
same effect, I'm sure it would be a welcome addition.  But forcing
this behavior on all of Emacs is IMO not a good idea.