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: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:50:53 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:44:23 -0500
> 
> >> There's no reason for Emacs to change its behavior
> >> on GNUish hosts.  People on these hosts are used to
> >> the current behavior with stderr.  Any problems
> >> in this area are limited to Microsoft platforms, and
> >> can be solved in a Microsoft-specific way.
> > There are no problems on Windows, either.
> 
> There's clearly a problem: creating a file emacs_backtrace.txt in some
> "in your face" directory annoys some users (and I'm sure we can come up
> with funny hypothetical scenarios where it leads to serious breakage of
> god knows what).
> Hence the suggestion to use ~/.emacs.d which is much less "in your face"
> and much safer.

I'm waiting for this to be implemented on Posix platforms, then.