From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Locking files for CLASH_DETECTION now supported on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:49:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512BEA8A.7060307@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr4k4qgof.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 02/25/13 12:35, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> the worst case one of
> the machines will disable the file-lock-checks, which is no worse than
> what we had before (where the Windows machine had the file-lock-checks
> disabled
It depends on one's point of view. Before, locking worked on
GNU/Linux hosts. With the change, locking is no longer reliable on
GNU/Linux hosts if an MS-Windows session is active or has crashed.
So GNU/Linux users are worse off than before. MS-Windows users
are better off of course, but we should strive for a solution
that doesn't also make GNU/Linux users worse off.
> A much more likely scenario is to see users complain/worry on
> gnu.emacs.help about weird files appearing on their systems
Yes, perhaps there should be a way to turn off the use of
regular files for locking on MS-Windows hosts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-25 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-25 17:43 Locking files for CLASH_DETECTION now supported on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-25 18:05 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-25 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-25 18:56 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-26 2:03 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-26 2:43 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-02-26 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-26 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 4:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-02-26 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 6:05 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 5:46 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-26 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 22:34 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-27 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-27 7:45 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-27 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-27 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-25 19:39 ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-25 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-25 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-25 22:49 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2013-02-26 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-26 12:56 ` Richard Stallman
2013-02-26 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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