Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
>         address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:39:23 -0500
> 
> > Alternatively, we could limit the filenames we generate for autosaving the
> > scratch buffer (and any others like it) to use characters that are valid on
> > all the filesystems we know about.
> 
> That's indeed what we should do.

I suspect that Unix users will hate us for that.