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 14:12:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E341333.7020706@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312049584 18916 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2011 18:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dave@boostpro.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, johnw@boostpro.com To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 20:12:59 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 1QnE1x-0000Ph-0a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:12:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1w-0007j2-FO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1u-0007iw-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1t-0003Bi-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1t-0003Be-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1t-00055b-IC; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <4E341333.7020706@gmail.com> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:20:35 -0700) 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:142528 Archived-At: Count me among those who would like to disable clash detection. We should try to improve clash detection by using advisory locks. If that makes it so smooth that it doesn't bother anyone, we will be finished with it. If some still find it annoying, then let's add some sort of feature to 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/