From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ei1bqi8p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311982867 20915 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2011 23:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, dave@boostpro.com, stephen@xemacs.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 01:40:59 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 1Qmwfq-0005OR-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:40:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmwfq-0008Lx-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmwfn-0008KW-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmwfm-0002Bn-9A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:46074) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmwfm-0002Bh-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmwfl-000438-P9; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:53 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tim Cross on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:12:11 +1000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:142501 Archived-At: However, many systems now have a 'switch user' context, which allows the desktop to switch to another user without the previous use logging out. Potentially, this could have locking implications. That is true. If clash detection were done with advisory locks, it might be so painless that nobody would want to ever disable it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/