From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, 70415@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70415: 30.0.50; [Cygwin] `lock-file' creates a symlink with funny name
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 17:20:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26ab8055-1da6-4b3e-a65c-68c598cb7660@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86le4uq0tj.fsf@gnu.org>
On 4/30/2024 12:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:23:21 -0400
>> Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, 70415@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>>
>> On 4/29/2024 10:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:05:35 -0400
>>>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>>>> Cc: 70415@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>>
>>>> I finally had a chance to look at this, and I can't reproduce the
>>>> problem. The autosave file does not have the ":BOOT_TIME" part, and it
>>>> gets deleted properly when the file is saved. I'm running the latest
>>>> stable release of Cygwin (3.5.3) on Windows 11 (version 23H2, build
>>>> 22631.3447).
>>>
>>> This is not about autosave files, this is about lock files. Those are
>>> created once you modify a file-visiting buffer.
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't write what I meant. I meant to refer to the lock file.
>
> OK. So it sounds like on some Cygwin systems this call in filelock.c:
>
> static int
> lock_file_1 (Lisp_Object lfname, bool force)
> {
> intmax_t boot = get_boot_sec ();
>
> yields a non-zero (and negative!) value of 'boot', and on other Cygwin
> systems it yields zero. Because that's how Emacs decides whether to
> append that ":-NNNN" part:
>
> char const *lock_info_fmt = (boot
> ? "%s@%s.%"PRIdMAX":%"PRIdMAX
> : "%s@%s.%"PRIdMAX);
> int len = snprintf (lock_info_str, sizeof lock_info_str,
> lock_info_fmt, user_name, host_name, pid, boot);
>
> get_boot_sec calls get_boot_time, which is a Gnulib function (see
> lib/boot-time.c). So I guess the key to unlock this puzzle is
> somewhere there.
I took a quick look at get_boot_time and found a bug, which may explain
why some Cygwin systems behave differently from others. I've reported
it here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-05/msg00008.html
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-01 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-16 12:33 bug#70415: 30.0.50; [Cygwin] `lock-file' creates a symlink with funny name Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-04-16 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-16 18:01 ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2024-04-16 22:57 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-17 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-16 23:58 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-04-17 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-22 16:15 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-29 23:05 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-30 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-30 6:45 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-04-30 15:23 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-30 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-01 21:20 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2024-05-02 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02 14:26 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 17:15 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-04 17:46 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 22:01 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-05 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-05 16:21 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-05 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-05 17:02 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-05 18:00 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-07 0:07 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-05-04 17:30 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-04 18:46 ` Ken Brown
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