Re: persistent file locks

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't understand why would you need to lock the file in the first
> place.  For starters, Emacs is quite capable of using the same file
> from more than one session: it closes the file as soon as write-region
> does its job.  If you want to distinguish between log entries from
> different sessions, you can have the Emacs PID be part of the entry.
>
> [...]

Ok, thanks for the background.  You've convinced me that I'd better not
use locks.  I think I'll follow your advice and just prepend each log
line with the pid.


Thanks again,

Michael.