From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:20:35 -0700 Message-ID: <4E341333.7020706@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBE3A4D227C0F8587AF6A05AA" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312035654 9562 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2011 14:20:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 16:20:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnAPJ-00031M-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnAPI-0006Ya-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnAPF-0006YT-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnAPE-00087o-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com ([209.85.210.49]:58108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnAPE-00087X-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so7026712pzk.8 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:20:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=DcEqqRxyBha1RCV8N3VDPe66tG3cu+jOTwLpwuF4G64=; b=mfjDvUdE7P5UjV4EVFkb2fCjN+KhJL0I5+ZwEsY4OQf8ELqc4CQQS4pABuX7DI8p1F cet2LEoYY9tRseldK9KzVfQcw5rCriMCHYVosiVSY2wE2RiU/YXgajOR/jIOW72wly5I 3lCkgtCw6UXxE9fKCZ990Q6h5JT0s+dqvlr5s= Original-Received: by 10.68.27.41 with SMTP id q9mr3941751pbg.337.1312035642799; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from edith.local (adsl-99-71-193-81.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [99.71.193.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d3sm3291071pbh.69.2011.07.30.07.20.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:20:41 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.49 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142520 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBE3A4D227C0F8587AF6A05AA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 7/26/11 7:42 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote: > Those symlinks that emacs creates to help avoid collisions between user= s > editing simultaneously cause me lots of pain and no gain, so I propose > the enclosed patch that allows me to disable the feature. Count me among those who would like to disable clash detection. I would = prefer, however, that instead of a simple disabling mechanism we provide a generi= c Lisp hook, i.e., a new lock-file-function variable, which could be set to 'ign= ore. This way, we provide mechanism, not policy, at the C level, and allow mor= e experimentation with alternate locking strategies. --------------enigBE3A4D227C0F8587AF6A05AA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk40EzYACgkQ17c2LVA10VvTNQCeL4tyYHTMTSbnDtntMDH0fOOz n+oAnjyKNfU6VCvhPUeg5ZQggQEHGMbZ =uXkT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBE3A4D227C0F8587AF6A05AA--