From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pepijn Kenter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:25:39 +0100 Organization: SURFnet BV Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FDDA843.10800@tpd.tno.nl> Reply-To: kenter_remove_spam@tpd.tno.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071491796 17875 80.91.224.253 (15 Dec 2003 12:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 13:36:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVrxh-0002nL-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:36:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVsoh-00025x-Eb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:31:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!surfnet.nl!news.surfnet.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tpd221025064.tpd.tno.nl Original-X-Trace: news.surfnet.nl 1071491159 5009 134.221.25.64 (15 Dec 2003 12:25:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.surfnet.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:25:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119330 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15269 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15269 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.