From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vincent Lefevre Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <20141029160459.GN5545@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> References: <87h9ypiqmm.fsf@xvii.vinc17.org> <8k61f398u4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029012802.GS4400@xvii.vinc17.org> <83y4rz1qmj.fsf@gnu.org> <20141029080939.GT4400@xvii.vinc17.org> <83sii70xb7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414598786 8141 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 16:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18851@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 17:06:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVlL-0002Pv-0q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:06:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVlK-0007NM-Ix for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVlD-0007NC-CL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVl4-00067X-Tc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVl4-00067Q-Qp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVl4-0005YJ-I5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:06:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Vincent Lefevre Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:06:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18851 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18851-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18851.141459870421269 (code B ref 18851); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:06:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18851) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Oct 2014 16:05:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38955 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVk7-0005Ww-SF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr ([140.77.13.48]:41186) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVk5-0005WM-Ch for 18851@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from vlefevre by ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1XjVk4-0007V9-1b; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:05:00 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83sii70xb7.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23-6365-vl-r59709 (2014-09-07) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:95256 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. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)