From: Peter Blicher <blicher@research.nj.nec.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: autosave
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:53:24 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206091653.g59GrObw000830@mail.nj.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206091519.g59FJ3L00241@aztec.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:19:03 -0600 (MDT))
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:19:03 -0600 (MDT)
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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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When unable to create (or write to?) some autosave dir .emacs.d or below,
retries forever. This occurred when I was running with a home dir that I
couldn't write to (because I was root on a different machine). Never had
this problem in versions 20.4 and before.
Would you please supply a precise test case so we can reproduce this?
Please read the Bugs section in the Emacs manual, which provides
guidelines on how to write a bug report to give us the
necessary information so we can fix the bug.
I've read the bugs sections many times over many years. This was the best I
could do under the circumstances. If I get time, I will try to get you
better info.
However, if someone sent me such a bug report, what I would do is take a look
at the code that does auto-save, and see what it does when it tries to create
or access the directories mentioned. If that code has changed since the
previous major release, I would take a closer look. I would consider what
would happen if it did not have adequate permissions for places it wanted to
write to or create or check the existence of directories in.
--peter
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2002-06-09 15:19 ` autosave Richard Stallman
2002-06-09 16:53 ` Peter Blicher [this message]
2002-06-10 23:43 ` autosave Richard Stallman
2002-06-09 17:05 ` autosave Peter Blicher
2002-06-10 23:44 ` autosave Richard Stallman
2002-06-11 4:39 ` autosave Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-11 18:10 ` autosave Peter Blicher
2002-06-12 4:46 ` autosave Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-12 2:31 ` autosave Richard Stallman
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