From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: 70415@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70415: 30.0.50; [Cygwin] `lock-file' creates a symlink with funny name
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:32:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861q75juvy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4m34rlo5bw.fsf@jpl.org> (message from Katsumi Yamaoka on Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:33:07 +0900)
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:33:07 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
>
> As you know, Emacs creates a lock file when start editing a FILE
> by default, it is a symbolic link that is linked to a name
> looking like this:
>
> .#FILE -> username@hostname.1234
>
> Where 1234 is Emacs' pid. It will be removed after saving
> the FILE. Even if the lock file is left, Emacs will remove it
> when opening the FILE for the next time. However, recently lock
> files no longer got deleted on at least the latest Cygwin on
> Windows 11. It is (probably) because Emacs came to create lock
> files with a funny name like this:
>
> .#FILE -> username@hostname.1234:-11644473599
>
> For that case `(unlock-file "FILE")' issues this warning:
>
> Warning (unlock-file): Unlocking file: Invalid argument, FILE, ignored
Does Cygwin support file names with a colon, such as the above?
The part after the colon is the system boot time, and is used on all
Posix hosts. I don't know why it prints as a negative value on
Cygwin, but the question is: does Cygwin support such file names? If
not, what are the restrictions on Cygwin file names that we need to
observe when we create lock files? This is likely a question for the
Cygwin mailing list, or maybe you already know the answer.
Several internal functions in filelock.c know about the
USER@HOST.PID:BOOT_TIME format of the lock file names, so if there are
any Cygwin-specific restrictions, they will all need to be patched
accordingly.
> I don't know what ":-11644473599" is, but I did the bisection
> and found that it started with this change:
>
> ,----
> | commit 393f58c85aeb78f814866ccaad9ae7efd3fa6766
> | Author: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
> | Date: Fri Mar 8 23:43:14 2024 -0600
> |
> | 'vtable-update-object' can now be called with one argument
This is extremely unlikely to have caused the problem. It is more
likely that some change in Cygwin and/or in the Gnulib's boot-time
module causes this now.
Also, do you see this in "emacs -Q"? If not, perhaps some local
customizations cause this?
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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 [this message]
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
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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