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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:49:22 -0500

>> And I'm thinking that the default location should perhaps be
>> somewhere under .emacs.d, perhaps with the dir that is currently used
>> as the default recorded somehow.
> This is dangerous, because accessing the home directory may involve
> Lisp evaluation, e.g. if that directory is remote.

If the ~/.emacs.d is under some file-handler like Tramp, then we're out
of luck, but I wouldn't worry about it.  Just pass the file names to the
OS's functions and if it can't handle them, then you'll get a write
error and that's that (we have to handle that case anyway).

        Stefan