GNU bug report logs - #12911
24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:50:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

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: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 12911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:43:19 +0100

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org> wrote:

> All my other programs store program-generated files under AppData. None writes
> indiscriminately to the current directory in the event of a crash.

Do you have many Windows programs that do generate a backtrace file in
the event of failure? And do they all write to %APPDATA%?

If the answer to both questions is "yes", are these Cygwin programs?

    Juanma
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