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: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:10:50 -0400 (EDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206111810.g5BIAoCU012881@mail.nj.nec.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023820037 12566 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2002 18:27:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, 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 17HqMO-0003GZ-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Hqjp-00063X-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:51:29 +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 17Hq7n-0007r4-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nj.nec.com ([138.15.200.209]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Hq6X-0007eC-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:10:53 -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 g5BIApGE012894; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:10:52 -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 g5BIAoCU012881; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:10:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: eliz@is.elta.co.il In-Reply-To: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:39:27 +0300 (IDT)) 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:4755 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4755 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:39:27 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz@is cc: blicher@research.nj.nec.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 693 On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > Oh, I guess I should mention a couple of other things: > > Actually the one thing I would like is a complete self-contained > recipe for making the bug happen. It is not normal for Emacs to write > auto-save files in emacs.d. The ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/ directory is used for the `.saves-*' files where Emacs saves session information (used by "M-x recover-session"). (See startup.el:auto-save-list-file-prefix.) These are not the normal auto-save files, but they do resemble them because Emacs saves session info periodically, like it does with auto-saving. Perhaps the problem was with those files, not with autosave files. That's highly likely. However, given that rms has said he already looked at the code, I think he is right that I will have to isolate the problem better before you guys can do more. Unless he did not look at the session save code. Unfortunately, it is hard to look at something like the *Messages* buffer when the program is in an infinite loop of failed file operations. Since it's been years since I did emacs debugging, I don't remember offhand all the stuff I have to do to debug, trace, etc., which means I have to look all this stuff up before I can give you a distilled version of the problem. --peer -- 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