From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
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 08:57:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7fzj9gwi.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029080939.GT4400@xvii.vinc17.org> (Vincent Lefevre's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:09:39 +0100")
> The shell has no problems when the current directory has been
> removed. It can still run without needing to switch to $HOME.
The problem is that the `emacs' process only access files using absolute
file names (it basically doesn't use the process's current working
directory, because every buffer has its own "current working
directory"), so when the Emacs user thinks he's using a relative file
name, Emacs really concatenates this relative file name to the value of
`default-directory' and passes *that* to the OS.
So the current Emacs C code really has no way to access a directory/file
which is not accessible from the root directory.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 12:57 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
2014-10-29 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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