From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Duncan Greatwood <dgreatwood@gmail.com>
Cc: 70973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70973: 29.1; "Unlocking file: Invalid argument" Warning saving via a softlink with stale file lock
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 18:46:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fruhiwt0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGg=3NXe1Hb5apkbN=T5Y5R5r_qkYzayDKdTARKM0v-GUS4dNA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Duncan Greatwood on Thu, 16 May 2024 07:17:59 -0700)
> From: Duncan Greatwood <dgreatwood@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 07:17:59 -0700
> Cc: 70973@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > If you can reproduce the problem, please tell what does
> >
> > ls -l ~/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/emacs/.#dotemacs
> >
> > produce when you see the warnings
>
> As follows:
> $ ls -l ~/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/emacs/.#dotemacs
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 username staff 0 May 16 07:13
> /Users/username/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/emacs/.#dotemacs
Sorry, that doesn't help. I thought "ls -l" will show the target of
the symlink, but maybe it doesn't on macOS? In that case, you should
be able to use the Emacs function file-symlink-p: when called with the
lock file as its argument, it should return the target of the symlink
as a string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-16 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-16 0:53 bug#70973: 29.1; "Unlocking file: Invalid argument" Warning saving via a softlink with stale file lock Duncan Greatwood
2024-05-16 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 14:17 ` Duncan Greatwood
2024-05-16 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-16 15:55 ` Duncan Greatwood
2024-05-16 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 16:20 ` Duncan Greatwood
2024-05-16 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 19:27 ` Duncan Greatwood
2024-05-16 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 21:36 ` Duncan Greatwood
2024-06-01 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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