dired strange output

dired strange output

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

I noticed a line in my dired that looks like this
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 fred fred      42 Oct 24 01:05 .#myfile.cpp -> fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575

what does it mean to have a symlink to
"fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575"?

the shell output in xterm does not show it at all.


thanks

Re: dired strange output

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 23.10.2006 um 17:59 schrieb Gary Wessle:

> what does it mean to have a symlink to
> "fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575"?

You're editing a file, and this file is changed right now.

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Re: dired strange output

[Colin S. Miller]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 23.10.2006 um 17:59 schrieb Gary Wessle:
> 
>> what does it mean to have a symlink to
>> "fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575"?
> 
> You're editing a file, and this file is changed right now.
> 
In fact you're editing it on a machine called "localhost.localdomain",
with process ID 3415, the editing started 1161501575 seconds since the Epoch,
(Sun Oct 22 08:19:35 BST 2006), and your user name is "fred".

Or, if the file is on a shared directory, "fred" is.

csmiller@localhost:/home/csmiller$ date -d "1 jan 1970 gmt 1161501575 seconds"
Sun Oct 22 08:19:35 BST 2006


HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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Re: dired strange output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:54:07 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Am 23.10.2006 um 17:59 schrieb Gary Wessle:
> 
> > what does it mean to have a symlink to
> > "fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575"?
> 
> You're editing a file, and this file is changed right now.

Yup.  Read all about that in the Emacs manual, in the node
"Interlocking", and in the ELisp manual, node "File Locks".