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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question: suppress ask-user-about-lock?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:03:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831r2mx3rq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0C4FAB-FAFB-4F30-8770-BDD94ACAF64A@mit.edu> (message from Qiantan Hong on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 19:22:44 +0000)

> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 19:22:44 +0000
> Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> No, I mean it should signal ‘file-locked without asking the user
> (through ask-user-about-lock).
> I intended to use it as a mutex in Elisp program.

But we already have mutexes in Emacs, so why not use the real thing?
What am I missing?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-08 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-08 17:34 Question: suppress ask-user-about-lock? Qiantan Hong
2021-12-08 19:17 ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-08 19:22   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-08 19:36     ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-08 19:43       ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-08 20:12         ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-08 22:03         ` Matt Armstrong
2021-12-08 22:12           ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-08 20:03     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-08 20:12       ` Qiantan Hong

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