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From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:22:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA63BE4C-5C96-4DCB-8A1E-222B89C5B00B@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QmTiw-0008Rd-1D@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Maybe NFS provides a way to have multiple people editing in one file system.
> It is possible to determine whether NFS is in use.

There are many remote filesystems in use today, and the number is increasing as people work to develop better alternatives to DropBox.  I'd guess that SMB, DropBox, WebDAV, NFS, and AFS are the most commonly used, but that's just a guess. I gather that modern VCSs have cut down on the use of network filesystems somewhat.

Without the lockfile, does Emacs not detect that the file has changed out from under the buffer? That used to be sufficient for me, when I used networked file systems 90% of the time.

Hope that helps,
*Chad




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 18:22 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 [this message]
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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