GNU bug report logs - #12908
24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12908 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?
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.
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