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bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has be
From: |
Vincent Lefevre |
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 |
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Mutt/1.5.23-6365-vl-r59709 (2014-09-07) |
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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- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, (continued)
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Ivan Shmakov, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed,
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- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/29
bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/28