From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, 70415@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70415: 30.0.50; [Cygwin] `lock-file' creates a symlink with funny name
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 18:01:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e83bbd4-13a7-4495-a9dc-d9ad181b5c09@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e734d5d6-b8b5-4dd1-a7d3-03fe8231ff23@cornell.edu>
On 5/4/2024 1:46 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/4/2024 1:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Would you mind explaining for posterity (and for my personal
>> curiosity) how what Bruno changed affects the deletion of the lock
>> file? Is that because the ":-NNNN" suffix had the dash (because the
>> system's page file was deemed to eb a directory)? If so, how did the
>> presence of the dash cause the failure to delete the file?
>
> Not only was the system's page file deemed to be a directory, but it was
> deemed to have a negative modification time. I think that's where the
> dash came from. But I don't know why that prevented the lock file from
> being deleted.
I found the answer: filelock.c:current_lock_owner returns an error if
the colon exists and is not followed by a digit. See filelock.c:421.
Ken
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-16 12:33 bug#70415: 30.0.50; [Cygwin] `lock-file' creates a symlink with funny name Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-04-16 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-16 18:01 ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2024-04-16 22:57 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-17 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-16 23:58 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-04-17 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-22 16:15 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-29 23:05 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-30 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-30 6:45 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-04-30 15:23 ` Ken Brown
2024-04-30 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-01 21:20 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-02 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02 14:26 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 17:15 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-04 17:46 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 22:01 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2024-05-05 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-05 16:21 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-05 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-05 17:02 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-05 18:00 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-07 0:07 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2024-05-04 17:30 ` Ken Brown
2024-05-04 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-04 18:46 ` Ken Brown
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