Subject: Re: bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:19:02 -0800

On 11/17/2012 07:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Unix, the data winds up in some directory under user's home
> directory.

No, on Unix that data is sent to the standard error stream.
This is documented in the manual.

It's common that stderr is redirected to a file,
but it's also common that it's not.  Traditionally
it's not, and many people commonly run Emacs that way.