bug#23761: 25.0.94; Gnus wont exit when .newsrc.eld file is modified externally

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> writes:

>         I ran Gnus in two different instances one of which was
>         running undisturbed for over a week.
>
>         When I went to exit it, if, of course, warned me:
>
> /home/liveuser/.newsrc.eld was updated externally after Thu 02 Jun 2016
> 04:26:45 AM EDT, save? (y or n) n
>
>          I type "n" to not save the state file and "y" to continue
>          exiting Gnus anyway and recieved the error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn’t save 
> /home/liveuser/.newsrc.eld: updated externally")
>   signal(error ("Couldn’t save /home/liveuser/.newsrc.eld: updated 
> externally"))
>   error("Couldn't save %s: updated externally" "/home/liveuser/.newsrc.eld")

This has now been fixed in Emacs 27.1.

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