From: Pepijn Kenter <kenter_remove_spam@tpd.tno.nl>
Subject: GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:25:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDDA843.10800@tpd.tno.nl> (raw)
Hi all.
I've got a problem when I use su to log in as another user and try to
edit a file that is modified in CVS. Let me show you the sequence of
commands that leads to the problem.
When loged in as user1 type:
su user2
emacs file.pro # edit, exit and save the changes
emacs file.pro # file.pro is now read only.
I can not edit file.pro the second time because it is apperently locked
by user2 (as shown in the status line? of emacs). File permissions are
correct and the onwner of file.pro (still) is user2.
After some googling I think the possible cause is that emacs is
inconsistent in the way it handles the USER and LOGNAME variables.
Indeed USER is set to user2 whereas LOGNAME is still user1. When I
change LOGNAME to user2 the problem disappears.
So, what to do?
I've found a very old message (1994) with a patch to solve this problem
http://groups.google.nl/groups?q=LOGNAME+USER+emacs&hl=nl&lr=lang_de|lang_en|lang_nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=9402100649.AA13033%40spot.twinsun.com&rnum=1
but I would expect that after all most 10 years the problem had been fixed.
A simpler solution would be to set the LOGNAME variable to user2
somewhere. I've understood that the differences are mainly historical.
This seems to me an ugly work arround that may leed to problems
elsewhere, so I prefer a more elegant solution.
Any help would be appriciated.
Pepijn Kenter.
next reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 12:25 Pepijn Kenter [this message]
2003-12-15 18:04 ` GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-16 9:44 ` Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-16 14:10 ` gebser
[not found] <mailman.138.1071587578.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-16 14:51 ` Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-16 16:26 ` gebser
2003-12-17 6:42 ` Maurizio Loreti
2003-12-17 15:34 ` gebser
[not found] <mailman.195.1071679031.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-17 16:26 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-17 19:03 ` gebser
2003-12-17 16:41 ` Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-17 17:54 ` Maurizio Loreti
2003-12-18 17:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
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