Subject: Re: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:49:19 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:36:50 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> It's not as if the user is going to get backtraces all over his hard
> disk on every single run.

"All over the hard disk" will almost never happen, because people who
invoke Emacs from a desktop icon will always have Emacs run in the
same directory.  All the backtraces will be on a single file in that
directory.