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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: dak@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, 18336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:31:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838skevbsn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8536amk7q6.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:54:41 -0500)

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  stefan@marxist.se,  18336@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:54:41 -0500
> 
> > Thanks.  Any suggestions for how to fix this?  A new argument to
> > lock_file, perhaps?  Or maybe some additional check in
> > userlock--ask-user-about-supersession-threat to recognize the special
> > situation where we are saving a file?
> 
> I'm not sure.  Why exactly are we calling lock_file from write_region?

Because write-region can be called from an unmodified buffer, I
suppose, and from a buffer whose buffer-file-name is not the same as
the file being written to.

>    Do not (normally) call this for a buffer already modified,
>    as either the file is already locked, or the user has already
>    decided to go ahead without locking.
> 
> It seems we are doing exactly this, so I guess that makes
> save-buffer/write-region an "abnormal" situation?

Evidently, when we disabled backups in /tmp, we missed the fact that
lock_file called from write-region will be affected.  When backups are
not disabled, this works correctly.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-05 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27  7:44 bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions David Kastrup
2020-03-01  0:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-01 16:26   ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-01 16:38     ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 17:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-01 17:45         ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 17:58           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-01 18:22             ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 18:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02  4:14                 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-02  8:27                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02  9:42                     ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 11:04                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 11:41                         ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 11:51                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02  8:39                   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02  8:55                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02  9:04                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02 11:01                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02  9:53                     ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 12:20                       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-02 16:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-05 14:13                           ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 15:07                             ` David Kastrup
2020-03-05 17:54                               ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 19:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-22  1:13                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 14:35                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 15:45                                       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 17:09                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 19:46                                           ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 20:16                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23  3:26                                               ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 16:02                             ` Eli Zaretskii

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