From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [dooglus@gmail.com: display problem after renaming open image files] Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:46:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ircfu4eo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175586760 27862 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2007 07:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 09:52:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HYdof-0001xw-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:52:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYdrm-00080y-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYdoi-00040w-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYdog-0003z6-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYdof-0003yT-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HYdlW-00069Y-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HYdjH-00074E-E0; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:46:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ircfu4eo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:16:15 -0400) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68968 Archived-At: > $ cp ../pic.png pic1.png > open the first file > rename pic1.png to pic3.png: > revisit the first file > The image shows up as a small square rather than the real image. This is because the underlying image file, pic1.png, is gone. I think this is not worth fixing at this point. It is clearly a bug, and we should try to fix it. What causes this bug? What data structure still refers to the old file name, and has not been updated to the new one?