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#23276
25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
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Reported by: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:09:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.0.92
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:01:18 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Clobbering a file doesn't imply that you lose its previous contents.
> >
> > I never said otherwise.
>
> Then what's the meaning of your
>
> >> > How is it different from clobbering a file by making it empty?
>
> in response to John's
>
> >> >> I would not want it to erase the buffer. Countless have been the
> >> >> times that I've been working on a project, and an unbridled rm
> >> >> took away code from the disk which I was very grateful to find was
> >> >> still in a buffer.
>
> ?
Just what I said: a missing file is (in my eyes) very similar to a
zero-size file.
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