From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RMAIL file locking problem?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:13:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DRJ8V-0004ZX-2L@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uhdhrfsz6.fsf@boris.laptop> (message from Evil Boris on Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:03:25 -0400)
As far as I can tell, it is the following code:
(if file-name
(rmail-insert-inbox-text files nil)
(setq delete-files (rmail-insert-inbox-text files t)))
Ok, it seems natural that this would lock the current buffer.
It is trying to insert something.
On my machine the locking trouble seems to happen when there is no new
mail. My understanding is that RMAIL reads in the contents of the
(empty!) mailbox (by the way, would it make sense to check for 0
length and just skip the rest of jumping through hoops in this
case---no locking, no inserting of zero bytes, no testing for having
inserted zero bytes?)
It seems strange that insert-file-contents would leave the buffer
locked if it does not really change the buffer. That could be a bug
in insert-file-contents: that it handles the zero-size case wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-29 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-19 16:16 RMAIL file locking problem? Evil Boris
2005-04-20 14:56 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-28 4:03 ` Evil Boris
2005-04-29 0:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2005-04-30 20:05 ` Evil Boris
2005-05-01 23:37 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-10 3:03 ` Evil Boris
2005-05-11 16:28 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-12 0:32 ` Evil Boris
2005-05-12 14:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-14 3:46 ` Evil Boris
2005-05-14 15:13 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-14 4:17 ` Evil Boris
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