From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evil Boris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:20:25 -0400 Message-ID: <82fwlqm7ae.fsf@D928810BF0.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311888053 9693 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 21:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:20:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 23:20:48 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 1QmY0c-0007zS-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:20:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmY0c-0000KA-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmY0Z-0000Jt-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmY0Y-0001Wj-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmY0Y-0001Wb-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmY0W-0007wK-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:20:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-38-181-122.c3-0.wsd-ubr1.qens-wsd.ny.cable.rcn.com ([207.38.181.122]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:20:40 +0200 Original-Received: from evilborisnet by 207-38-181-122.c3-0.wsd-ubr1.qens-wsd.ny.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:20:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-38-181-122.c3-0.wsd-ubr1.qens-wsd.ny.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yEy4DYNc3x/M/FyEyQM6L/jhjYA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:142468 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams writes: > Those symlinks that emacs creates to help avoid collisions between users > editing simultaneously cause me lots of pain and no gain, so I propose > the enclosed patch that allows me to disable the feature. No one has brought this up yet: in my use case files are very rarely edited by multiple users, but they are often edited by multiple simultaneous instances of emacs; sometimes by multiple versions of emacs. I have been saved by the locking mechanism more than once. Not sure how crucial symlinks are to the implementation of those. Please do not remove the feature altogether.