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bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'? |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:27:43 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, lekktu@gmail.com,
> 12908@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:49:22 -0500
>
> >> And I'm thinking that the default location should perhaps be
> >> somewhere under .emacs.d, perhaps with the dir that is currently used
> >> as the default recorded somehow.
> > This is dangerous, because accessing the home directory may involve
> > Lisp evaluation, e.g. if that directory is remote.
>
> If the ~/.emacs.d is under some file-handler like Tramp, then we're out
> of luck, but I wouldn't worry about it. Just pass the file names to the
> OS's functions and if it can't handle them, then you'll get a write
> error and that's that (we have to handle that case anyway).
Fine with me. I will change the Windows code when the Unix code is
changed along these lines.
bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/16
bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/17