From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Locking files for CLASH_DETECTION now supported on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:43:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83ppzoi3h5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wqtwi90o.fsf@gnu.org> <512BA7F6.4010304@cs.ucla.edu> <83txp0i6cy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361821432 1537 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 19:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 20:44:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3y4-00089i-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:44:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3xj-0003Ll-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3xg-0003KM-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:43:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3xf-0001qN-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:62260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3xe-0001q4-Tb; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:43:43 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MIS00900K4IP800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:43:41 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MIS008E4K4SJPO0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:43:41 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:157336 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:39:00 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Anyway, file names that start with a period are pretty unusual on > > Windows, and a with period followed by a hash sign are extremely rare > > outside of the Emacs world. E.g., I have 73 such files on my disk, > > all of them from Emacs sessions. > > I have 109 (on a GNU/Linux system), all apparently associated with CVS, > not Emacs. I have those, too. But I don't think they present any danger, because they end in telltale .X.Y numeric tails, and are generally larger than the 1.3KB limit used by filelock.c on Windows to reject non-lockfiles.