From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:54:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ei1bqi8p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311872087 5993 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 16:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dave@boostpro.com, johnw@newartisans.com, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 18:54:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmTr2-0002hN-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:54:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmTr2-0007rI-EG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmTqz-0007r1-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmTqz-0002lv-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:40666) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmTqx-0002lL-6N; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:54:31 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2412641ewy.0 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:54:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rwrxwlmtba7D2wuYPuB6xrVqW6KyvUbJTDaffMQ9h3w=; b=YC0xS6vY4rIv1Z0LmOj/5Snn3qvA8unxfRhBZiTzoHWYUQepNGB2NAOM0+9yKDYs79 euc5Zrkf3Wo6tp3nRZrWJNwIHJFuilUCB2xKG+bVTmjxk8W3MgGlAYIG9d+6+kZl99vH 9OouCMNPUsoQf2jsweBHodR8zTkMriAY2Vhxw= Original-Received: by 10.213.107.17 with SMTP id z17mr241137ebo.49.1311872069137; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.20.81 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:54:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:142459 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 18:46, Richard Stallman wrote: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0We have a variable `inhibit-clash-detection' for the purpose= . > > I wonder if it is possible to determine automatically the best value > for it. =C2=A0To have multiple users on a machine requires serial termina= ls > or services that allow remote login. =C2=A0My laptop has neither, so it i= s > impossible to have multiple users on it at once. Is not the default today to have single users machines? And in other cases have accounts setups so that clashes will not occur. So isn't it better do avoid clash detection by default?