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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Cc: nicolasbertolo@gmail.com, 41242@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 17:32:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ksi60zn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xjftv0in4ug.fsf@sdf.org> (message from Andrea Corallo on Thu, 14 May 2020 11:17:11 +0000)

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
>         Nicolas Bértolo
>  <nicolasbertolo@gmail.com>,
>         41242@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 11:17:11 +0000
> 
> > Windows doesn't let you delete a shared library that's loaded by a
> > process, but it does let you rename it.  So I think the solution would
> > be to rename the .eln file to something like .eln.old, and then let
> > the GC driven unload machinery to delete that old file.
> 
> Do we have guarantees that each object is collected before Emacs is
> eventually closed?  I thought is not the case.

I don't know enough about the "GC driven unload" you mentioned, but if
that is not bulletproof enough, we could add a kill-emacs hook to take
care of this.  And if push comes to shove, we could use a Windows API
that causes a file to be deleted when the last handle on it is closed,
but that would add complexity, so I think we should try easier ways
first.

> > Btw, what happens if more than one Emacs session have the same .eln file loaded, and one of them wants to recompile it?
> 
> Now to avoid this problem we always delete the file before recompiling.

But that's unportable, and won't work on Windows, for the same reasons
as the issue we are discussing here.  Or am I missing something?





  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-14 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 149+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-13 19:26 bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-13 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 20:01   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-13 22:25     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 13:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 20:08   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-13 20:27     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-13 19:56 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-13 20:03   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 10:18 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 10:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 11:17     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 14:32       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-14 15:03         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 16:50           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 17:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 17:35               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 17:56                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 18:00                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 18:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 18:35                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 18:29                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 18:59                       ` Achim Gratz
2020-05-14 17:34             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 17:51               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 18:13                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 18:40                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 18:48                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 19:00                       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 19:15                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 19:48                           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 19:58                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 20:16                               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 20:29                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 20:34                                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-15  6:10                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 19:16                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 19:00                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 19:36                       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-15  6:08                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 12:33                           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-15 13:00                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 19:44                               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-16  6:22                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16  7:12                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 16:12                                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-16 16:19                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 16:31                                       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-16 16:42                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 17:09                                           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-19 19:23                                           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-19 19:25                                             ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-20 15:27                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 15:46                                                 ` Nicolas Bértolo
     [not found]                                                   ` <83blmf13d1.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                                                     ` <xjfh7w7vyjk.fsf@sdf.org>
     [not found]                                                       ` <83367r0zvb.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-05-23 10:37                                                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 11:03                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 11:21                                                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 12:20                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 12:54                                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 14:41                                                           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 15:11                                                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 15:26                                                               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 16:00                                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 16:04                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 16:20                                                                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 17:04                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 17:20                                                                       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 17:35                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 17:47                                                                           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 18:21                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 18:29                                                                               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 18:37                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 18:43                                                                                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-23 22:52                                                                                     ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-25 12:21                                                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-24  3:53                                                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-23 17:56                                                                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 15:52                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 16:03                                                               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-20 16:06                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-20 15:55                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 16:12                                               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-20 16:17                                                 ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-20 17:24                                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-20 17:29                                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-20 17:59                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 18:09                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-20 18:48                                                     ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-20 21:38                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-21  1:58                                                         ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-21 18:51                                                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-22 21:23                                                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-14 19:13                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 17:14           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 16:24         ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-14 17:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 22:58 ` bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows - Improve handling of native compilation Andrea Corallo
2020-05-23 23:43   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-24  8:19     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-24 17:58       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-24 19:13         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-24 19:43           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-25 14:04             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-25 14:27               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-25 15:06                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-25 20:27                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-25 21:49                     ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-27 21:02 ` bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows - Determine the emacs root dir Andrea Corallo
2020-05-28  6:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-29  0:39     ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-29 12:12       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-29 13:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-29 14:26           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-30 10:51         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-30 13:06           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-30 14:17             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-30 13:23           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-30 14:51             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-30 16:25               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-30 18:51                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-30 20:15                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-30 20:54                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-31  8:55                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-30 16:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-30 14:15 ` bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows - Reduce the number of files probed when finding a lisp file Andrea Corallo
2020-05-31 15:34   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-05-31 22:41     ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-01  7:21       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-01 13:56         ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-01 19:24     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-02  0:42       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-02 14:43         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-02 15:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-02 16:24         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-02 21:17           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-02 23:08             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-02 23:39               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-03 13:50                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-03 15:28                   ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-03 16:24                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-06 21:41     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-06 21:51       ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-06 22:32         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-06 22:50           ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-06 23:20             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-09 14:14               ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-09 17:17                 ` Andrea Corallo

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