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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 13807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13807: The lock for 'DIR/FILE' should always be 'DIR/.#FILE'.
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:57:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2dip5g4154.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512A98D5.7080000@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:48:53 -0800")

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Attached is a proposed cleanup patch, following up on the thread in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-02/msg00531.html>.

AFAICS, all that thread says is "we should remove this because it never
worked", when in fact it did work just fine until recently.

So the motivation for this seems to be entirely as given in the NEWS
(which is not really where it belongs IMO) for this change. Where it
just says "this was more trouble than it was worth and led to race
conditions of its own". No-one ever reported any (non-theoretical)
problems with it in practice, AFAIK.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-25 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-24 22:48 bug#13807: The lock for 'DIR/FILE' should always be 'DIR/.#FILE' Paul Eggert
2013-02-25 19:57 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-02-25 23:40   ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-26 22:19 ` bug#13807: updated version to avoid MS-Windows vs non-MS-Windows clashes Paul Eggert
2013-02-27 18:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-02 20:43     ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-02 21:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-02 22:37         ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-03 16:39           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-03 23:56             ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-04 16:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-05  2:25                 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-05 18:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-05 22:38                     ` Paul Eggert

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