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 17:05:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029160459.GN5545@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sii70xb7.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2014-10-29 16:23:24 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> AFAIK, GNU/Linux does the former.
Not really...
> The directory is not physically removed until the last process that
> has an open file descriptor for it closes that descriptor.
OK, but if the only reference is the current working directory,
it isn't usable at all. Nevertheless, Emacs won't quit because
of that.
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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
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 [this message]
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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