From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 18851@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:09:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029080939.GT4400@xvii.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4rz1qmj.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2014-10-29 05:50:12 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:28:02 +0100
> > From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> > 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.
I don't expect anything about reative file names. But if I type
"emacs foo", opening file "foo" from $HOME would be bad.
> In this regard, Emacs is like the shell.
The shell has no problems when the current directory has been
removed. It can still run without needing to switch to $HOME.
> > 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.
Linux does neither.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 13:33 bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-28 21:34 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-29 1:28 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 8:09 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2014-10-29 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 15:39 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 16:44 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 16:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-29 16:51 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 17:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-29 17:45 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 18:23 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-10-29 21:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-30 0:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-12 0:39 ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-12 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-12 15:45 ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-12 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 1:29 ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-13 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-29 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 15:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-29 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 16:05 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 10:57 ` Emacs bugs at the Debian BTS Ivan Shmakov
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