GNU bug report logs - #23276
25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present

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Package: emacs;

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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 23276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23276: 25.0.92;
 Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:16:53 +0300

> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:07:48 +0200
> From: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
> 
> I just had auto-revert crash on me... (Emacs 25.0.92 on Windows. `debug-on-error' is t.)

I don't see any crash, just an error that was signaled.  Am I missing
something?

> I had a file open in Emacs that was rewritten over and over again by an external process. My guess is that
> Emacs decides that it should be reverted, but when it actually reads the file, it is no longer present.
> 
> I would suggest that auto-revert silently ignores this error.

Ignore and empty the buffer, or ignore and leave it at its previous
contents?
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