From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:32:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6lw19zw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierh6lwtfyr.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:36:12 -0500)
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:36:12 -0500
>
> Alternatively, I suppose if we had a periodic timer that writes the
> file, that timer could also do the somewhat useful maintenance work of
> calling project-forget-zombie-projects. Or maybe we could just call
> that from kill-emacs-hook too? Just a thought.
There's midnight.el for that kind of jobs.
> Separately: Currently, even without any locking issues, if there are
> multiple Emacsen then project-list-file just contains the project--list
> of the last one to write. So they're constantly clobbering each others'
> added and removed projects. If we do the writes more rarely, then we
> could try to read project-list-file first and add or remove the projects
> that were added or removed during the life of this Emacs instance,
> instead of just blindly writing out project--list. Then if there are
> multiple Emacsen around, their changes to project--list won't clobber
> each other, they'll just be cleanly merged. Does that sound reasonable?
I thought these writes were already just adding projects, not
clobbering the list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-08 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-07 21:28 bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 0:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:06 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 7:46 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-08 14:52 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 15:44 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-08 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 15:41 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 17:05 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 20:43 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 16:38 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 18:01 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-10 12:48 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-15 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 15:36 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-08 21:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-15 15:40 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-15 20:49 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-18 1:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-18 15:48 ` sbaugh
2023-11-18 15:56 ` sbaugh
2023-11-18 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-18 23:10 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-19 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-19 14:54 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-19 14:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-19 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-20 2:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-20 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-19 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-19 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-19 19:38 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-20 1:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 21:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 13:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:25 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 21:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
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