From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 12911@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:37:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a9ucw278.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4nkkxh91.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, 12911@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:30:52 -0500
>
> > Accessing environment variables is another problematic place. We are
> > crashing, so the heap or the whole arena can be trashed. Who can be
> > sure the environment variables will not point to garbled places?
>
> Just to put things in perspective: this backtrace "feature" was put in
> to replace/supplement the previous assertion failure output (because
> with asserts now being inside inlinable functions, the line&file info
> we get is not the one we want any more). So the environment is usually
> still pretty sane, because assertions are usually caught fairly early.
If the backtrace is created due to assertion violation, yes. But it
is also invoked for all the other fatal signals.
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2012-11-16 20:48 bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written Drew Adams
2012-11-16 21:05 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt'files " Drew Adams
2012-11-16 21:19 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files " Stefan Monnier
2012-11-17 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-17 17:38 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-17 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-17 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-19 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-20 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-20 5:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-20 13:16 ` Andy Moreton
2012-11-20 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 17:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-20 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 18:57 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' " Drew Adams
2012-11-20 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 21:47 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-21 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-21 4:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-21 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-21 16:24 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written Drew Adams
[not found] ` <E86D7DFBD2BD4C3394E5316EF0321A! 95@us.oracle.com>
2012-11-21 16:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-21 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-21 17:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-21 18:01 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-21 18:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-21 18:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-20 18:30 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written Stefan Monnier
2012-11-20 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-20 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-20 16:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-20 17:11 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt'files " Drew Adams
2012-11-20 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 18:10 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-20 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 19:15 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-20 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 20:11 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-20 20:37 ` selected-frame and selected-window Stefan Monnier
2012-11-21 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-08 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-08 23:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-09 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-14 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-14 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 17:49 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-16 18:30 bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'? Drew Adams
2012-11-17 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-17 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-17 19:29 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-17 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-17 21:25 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-18 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 5:19 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-18 17:16 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 19:18 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-18 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 1:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-17 23:01 ` bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'? Drew Adams
2012-11-18 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 4:40 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 17:53 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 18:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 5:19 ` bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'? Paul Eggert
2012-11-18 17:08 ` bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written Eli Zaretskii
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