From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13807: The lock for 'DIR/FILE' should always be 'DIR/.#FILE'. Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:57:43 -0500 Message-ID: <2dip5g4154.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <512A98D5.7080000@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361822309 10781 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 19:58:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13807@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 20:58:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4CH-00036y-Lk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:58:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56313 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4Bw-0003TL-SC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4Bt-0003Su-1o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4Bq-0006rl-MK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44519) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4Bq-0006re-I0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4DS-0001vh-OR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:00:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13807 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 13807-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13807.13618223687344 (code B ref 13807); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13807) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Feb 2013 19:59:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49978 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4Ct-0001uP-Qd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:59:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:39207) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4Cs-0001uJ-Cs for 13807@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA4BE-0002xU-8m; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:57:44 -0500 X-Spook: doctrine ammunition computer terrorism Putin DRM e-cash X-Ran: AY[\5dx\EWmsshAYM}vsp6V8~jaeW8JZ%!4(Nm2"u|J/3y8T-8JE^|9"jfa7 (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:48:53 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:71796 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > Attached is a proposed cleanup patch, following up on the thread in > . 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.