From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ei1bqi8p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83y5zgcjyk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312029648 8304 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2011 12:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 14:40:44 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 1Qn8qS-0006st-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn8qR-0002Dm-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn8iB-0001kH-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn8iB-0004Zz-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:42717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn8i8-0004Z3-8T; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: by vwm42 with SMTP id 42so1476369vwm.0 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.64.207 with SMTP id q15mr2333456vds.261.1312029127026; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pluto.luannocracy.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jv3sm493620vdb.35.2011.07.30.05.32.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by pluto.luannocracy.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 80E93862D5B; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83y5zgcjyk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:21:23 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:40:40 -0400 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:142516 Archived-At: on Sat Jul 30 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Dave Abrahams >> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:29:38 -0400 >> Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, >> emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, stephen@xemacs.org >> >> I'm sure that depends on your perspective about what's convenient. The >> advance warning feature may be convenient for you, but for me (and >> apparently I'm not alone) it's a nuisance. My patch simply allows >> people to turn this feature off if they have the same experience as I >> do. Is there some reason it can't be accepted? > > You can always disable this feature by removing the CLASH_DETECTION > macro definition on the appropriate header file in src/s/, can't you? Sure, if I want to maintain my own fork, rebuild emacs at every new release, and not benefit any of the other people who are bothered by this feature. I was really hoping to avoid all of those outcomes. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com