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: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:51:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjyqhpsj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wqtwi90o.fsf@gnu.org> <512BA7F6.4010304@cs.ucla.edu> <83txp0i6cy.fsf@gnu.org> <512BB3C1.40201@cs.ucla.edu> <512C17E1.7040307@cs.ucla.edu> <83d2vniuxv.fsf@gnu.org> <512C509B.7000205@cs.ucla.edu> <8338wij4td.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361904737 1602 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2013 18:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eggert@cs.ucla.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 19:52:40 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 1UAPdg-0005Sm-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UAPdL-0005et-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:52:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51135) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UAPdJ-0005dw-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:52:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UAPdE-0005NN-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:48431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UAPdE-0005Mj-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MIU00600CA6OR00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:51:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MIU006SRCDSMU30@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:51:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8338wij4td.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:157397 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:41:34 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:05:15 -0800 > > From: Paul Eggert > > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > On 02/25/2013 08:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:> > > > > > On Windows, as long as a file is open, no > > > other application can write to it or remove the file. > > > > Is this true even if the file is network-mounted via NFS or CIFS? > > It is true if the other process runs on the same machine, I think. Actually, I see that this is generally true only for deleting and renaming a file that is open. If we want to prevent other writers or readers, we need to open the file with special flags.