From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:36:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h702pa6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1Qn1Gn-00077z-4R@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Any locking scheme should make sure that it does not interact with other
> programs: quite often I start a compilation and continue editing the
> file in question, making sure I don't save until the compilation has
> finished.
>
> If Emacs uses an advisory lock, and the PDF viewer does not use one,
> will that give the desired result?
The PDF viewer was an example for an application that causes grief by
locking in connection with compilation processes. One does not need
Emacs to have, say, a LaTeX compilation fail because a PDF viewer blocks
the resulting file.
I was trying to say that we should try to keep Emacs from being as
annoying in program/file interaction as those viewers are.
I have no personal experience with advisory locking, so I can't answer
your question. Maybe somebody else can?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-30 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 2:42 Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 15:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 16:25 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 18:56 ` John Wiegley
2011-07-28 1:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 16:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 0:12 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 0:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 3:29 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-30 12:32 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:13 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 12:46 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-28 18:22 ` chad
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 19:21 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-29 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-30 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 7:36 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2011-07-29 3:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 21:20 ` Evil Boris
2011-07-30 14:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:22 ` Tim Cross
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