From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dave@boostpro.com, johnw@newartisans.com,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:21:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E31B6CB.3040905@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QmTiw-0008Rd-1D@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 07/28/11 09:46, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Maybe NFS provides a way to have multiple people editing in one file system.
> It is possible to determine whether NFS is in use.
These days, advisory file locks (fcntl with F_GETLK and F_SETLK) should be
reliable enough over NFS (and on local file systems) on practical GNU and
GNU-like machines, and should be able to do everything that Emacs's symlink
lock files do. (This wasn't true way back when the symlink scheme was
originally introduced.) If we used advisory file locks, I daresay we
could get rid of those symlinks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-28 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 2:42 Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 15:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 16:25 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 18:56 ` John Wiegley
2011-07-28 1:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 16:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 0:12 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 0:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 3:29 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-30 12:32 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:13 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 12:46 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-28 18:22 ` chad
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 19:21 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-07-29 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-30 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 7:36 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29 3:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 21:20 ` Evil Boris
2011-07-30 14:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:22 ` Tim Cross
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