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: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:35:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ei1bqi8p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4E31B6CB.3040905@cs.ucla.edu> <87fwlo3ljr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312000536 3144 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2011 04:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 06:35:30 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 1Qn1Gr-0007z4-DI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:35:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn1Gq-0006UO-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57651) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn1Go-0006UJ-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn1Gn-00013c-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn1Gn-00013Y-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn1Gn-00077z-4R; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:35:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <87fwlo3ljr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:59:36 +0200) 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:142503 Archived-At: Any locking scheme should make sure that it does not interact with other programs: quite often I start a compilation and continue editing the file in question, making sure I don't save until the compilation has finished. If Emacs uses an advisory lock, and the PDF viewer does not use one, will that give the desired result? -- 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/