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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dave@boostpro.com, johnw@newartisans.com,
	"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
	schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:54:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX366LrnK-afrhJLuaUMH8vrud26OYcwAg8p7kcu4kSOLRJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QmTiw-0008Rd-1D@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 18:46, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>    We have a variable `inhibit-clash-detection' for the purpose.
>
> I wonder if it is possible to determine automatically the best value
> for it.  To have multiple users on a machine requires serial terminals
> or services that allow remote login.  My laptop has neither, so it is
> impossible to have multiple users on it at once.

Is not the default today to have single users machines? And in other
cases have accounts setups so that clashes will not occur.

So isn't it better do avoid clash detection by default?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 16:54 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 [this message]
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
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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