Re: Finding the dump (redux)

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 19 2021, Richard Stallman wrote:

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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > > See above: it makes startup slower, and also runs the risk of picking
>   > > up the wrong pdumper file and failing the startup altogether.
>
>   > That problem wouldn't exist if the pdumper file were looked up by its
>   > fingerprint.
>
> Could you explain concretely what that means?

Name the pdumper file emacs-FINGERPRINT.pdmp (where FINGERPRINT is the
hex string of the unique fingerprint).  Then the file can be put in a
fixed, shared directory without conflicts, and there is no need to use
an elaborate search strategy.

Andreas.

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