Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build

[Stefan Monnier]

>> When Emacs reads input in batch mode, does it do this decoding at all?
>> I don't know.  But since the input is coming from stdin, not from "the
>> keyboard", I think it is wrong to do any such decoding.

>     I don't see why it would be wrong.  It would be wrong to do
>     terminal-escape-sequence processing, but coding-system decoding on the
>     contrary seems like the right thing to do.

> Could you explain the arguments for this?

I don't know what to explain: if we assume the input (from stdin) to be
"text" rather than "binary data", then there needs to be
a decoding step.

Maybe you should explain why you think there shouldn't be such a thing?


        Stefan