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bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has be


From: Vincent Lefevre
Subject: bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:05:00 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23-6365-vl-r59709 (2014-09-07)

On 2014-10-29 16:23:24 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Note that the current directory can also be removed after Emacs
> > > > is started, so I expect that Emacs already supports cases like
> > > > that.
> > > 
> > > No, it does not.  Either the OS leaves the directory in existence
> > > until Emacs exits, or the OS prevents you from removing it.
> > 
> > Linux does neither.
> 
> AFAIK, GNU/Linux does the former.

Not really...

> The directory is not physically removed until the last process that
> has an open file descriptor for it closes that descriptor.

OK, but if the only reference is the current working directory,
it isn't usable at all. Nevertheless, Emacs won't quit because
of that.

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