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bug#51758: 27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#51758: 27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:45:38 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 51758@debbugs.gnu.org, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:22:04 +0200
> 
> Scott Otterson <scotto@sharpleaf.org> writes:
> 
> > When emacs crashes, I get an error popup (attached) saying that if I click 
> > NO, emacs
> > will abort and put emacs_backtrace.txt in "the current directory."
> >
> > Clicking NO, does produce emacs_backtrace.txt (attached), but it's actually 
> > put in my
> > EMACSHOME dir (the one emacs understands as "~"), not the current dir.
> 
> I guess this is from w32fns.c:
> 
>   button = MessageBox (NULL,
>                      "A fatal error has occurred!\n\n"
>                      "Would you like to attach a debugger?\n\n"
>                      "Select:\n"
>                      "YES -- to debug Emacs, or\n"
>                      "NO  -- to abort Emacs and produce a backtrace\n"
>                      "       (emacs_backtrace.txt in current directory)."
> #if __GNUC__
>                      "\n\n(type \"gdb -p <emacs-PID>\" and\n"
>                      "\"continue\" inside GDB before clicking YES.)"
> #endif
>                      , "Emacs Abort Dialog",
> 
> Eli, should that text just be amended?  (If it always puts the backtrace
> in EMACSHOME, that is -- I haven't actually cheked the code here.)

The text is correct.  I'm guessing the OP starts Emacs from EMACSHOME
directory.





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