From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient uses obsolete "server" file on Windows Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:15:49 +0200 Message-ID: <48512F95.8000108@gmail.com> References: <484ACDD0.80209@resiak.org> <484BFAE3.1000105@resiak.org> <4850E139.6060105@resiak.org> <48512949.5020104@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213280215 32167 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2008 14:16:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, djc To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 16:17:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6nc0-000422-JZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:17:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6nbC-000381-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6nav-00037u-TX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6nat-00037Z-Rg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39526 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6nat-00037W-Ky for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:52194) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6nas-0004vk-Tv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:65185 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K6naq-00067Z-4h; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:16:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080612-0, 2008-06-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K6naq-00067Z-4h. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1K6naq-00067Z-4h 8edb0ab24b5347cd72db8b1219331f3b X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54764 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 15:48, Lennart Borgman (gmail) > wrote: > >> Couldn't that be handled by checking the server file modification time? > > There's an inherent race condition: you cannot be sure that the file > will not be overwritten after you check its timestamp. Are all writing process on the same machine so that a simple semaphore can be used?