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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 12911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt'	files are written
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:55:38 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: <12911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:38:10 -0800
> 
> The backtrace file, wherever it might be saved: does it get overwritten when
> there is a new crash, or is a new version of it created (e.g.
> emacs_backtrace.txt~259~)?

On MS-Windows, neither: the new backtrace gets appended to the file.
I don't know what happens on Unix.
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