From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'? Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:49:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B9EFDFEE27E43DBB6331605DD7C2842@us.oracle.com> <83625549o1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353102621 25888 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2012 21:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 12908@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 22:50:32 2012 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 1TZTnz-0001CQ-FM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:50:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZTnp-0007YN-JO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZTnl-0007Wd-3l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZTni-0006jj-1R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:50:17 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZTnh-0006jb-U5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:50:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZToU-0005pU-6x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:51:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12908 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12908-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12908.135310261422345 (code B ref 12908); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12908) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Nov 2012 21:50:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49481 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZTni-0005oM-Cu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:46143) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZTng-0005oF-Aa for 12908@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:50:13 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0FAG6Zu09sr+ZY/2dsb2JhbABEsEiDSYEIghUBAQQBViMQCzQSFBgNJIgcBboJiwmFOwOIQpV3hHqBWIMHgUE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="207820899" Original-Received: from 108-175-230-88.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.175.230.88]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 16 Nov 2012 16:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D90E659346; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:49:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83625549o1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:42:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.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:67031 Archived-At: >> 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). Stefan