From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:50:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83y4rz1qmj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h9ypiqmm.fsf@xvii.vinc17.org> <8k61f398u4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029012802.GS4400@xvii.vinc17.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414554684 20425 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 03:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18851@debbugs.gnu.org To: Vincent Lefevre Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 04:51:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKI0-00015a-Qk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:51:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKI0-0001Lt-Ak for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKHs-0001LZ-DR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKHn-00047U-50 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKHn-00047Q-2H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKHm-0000dF-FD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18851 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18851-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18851.14145546292385 (code B ref 18851); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18851) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Oct 2014 03:50:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38166 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKHF-0000cP-BM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:40951) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjKHA-0000c7-KJ for 18851@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NE600A00SEYRC00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for 18851@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:48:58 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NE6005F6T9MFF70@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:48:58 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20141029012802.GS4400@xvii.vinc17.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:95231 > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:28:02 +0100 > From: Vincent Lefevre > Cc: 18851@debbugs.gnu.org > > On 2014-10-28 17:34:59 -0400, Glenn Morris wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > Emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed: > > > > It's easy to change that so that it switches to HOME instead (let's not > > worry about the case of HOME being missing too!); see patch at end. > > Is there any reason to switch to another directory? Why doesn't > Emacs just ignore that the current directory has been removed > (and report errors only when an access to it is really needed)? Because Emacs needs to pretend to the user that it runs _in_ that directory, so that relative file names work as you'd expect. In this regard, Emacs is like the shell. > Note that the current directory can also be removed after Emacs > is started, so I expect that Emacs already supports cases like > that. No, it does not. Either the OS leaves the directory in existence until Emacs exits, or the OS prevents you from removing it.