bug#46881: 28.0.50; pdumper dumping causes way too many syscalls

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> writes:

> Since debuggability is such a concern, we probably shouldn't leak the
> buffer memory. Revised patch attached. (This patch also removes the
> lseek() syscalls; while not quite as numerous as the read() ones,
> those did clutter up straces here).

I've tried the patch on a couple of systems here, and the resulting
Emacs works fine (as expected), and the pdumping is significantly faster
here, too.

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