From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Blicher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autosave Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:53:24 -0400 (EDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206091653.g59GrObw000830@mail.nj.nec.com> References: <200206080100.g5810Sbw007341@mail.nj.nec.com> <200206091519.g59FJ3L00241@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023641684 23131 127.0.0.1 (9 Jun 2002 16:54:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17H5xj-00060y-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:54:43 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17H6KA-0006Xc-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17H5x8-0005N8-00; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 12:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nj.nec.com ([138.15.200.209]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17H5wb-0005LX-00; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 12:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nj.nec.com (mail [138.15.200.209]) by mail.nj.nec.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g59GrQGE000835; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:53:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from geeu.nj.nec.com (IDENT:blicher@geeu.nj.nec.com [138.15.168.58]) by mail.nj.nec.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g59GrObw000830; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:53:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200206091519.g59FJ3L00241@aztec.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:19:03 -0600 (MDT)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4670 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:19:03 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f From: Richard Stallman cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Reply-to: rms@gnu.org Content-Length: 516 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 -- A. Peter Blicher NEC Research Institute 609-951-2716 4 Independence Way 609-951-2488 fax Princeton, NJ 08540-6634 USA blicher@research.nj.nec.com