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* lock directory in CVS?
@ 2002-05-02  5:47 Pavel Janík
  2002-05-03 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Janík @ 2002-05-02  5:47 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

what is the purpose of the lock/ directory?
-- 
Pavel Janík

/*
 * For moronic filesystems that do not allow holes in file.
 * We may have to extend the file.
 */
                  -- 2.4.0-test2 fs/buffer.c

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* Re: lock directory in CVS?
  2002-05-02  5:47 lock directory in CVS? Pavel Janík
@ 2002-05-03 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
  2002-05-09  8:39   ` Pavel Janík
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-05-03 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

    what is the purpose of the lock/ directory?

I think it was used for lock files, but is not used for them nowadays.
So it can probably be eliminated.

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* Re: lock directory in CVS?
  2002-05-03 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2002-05-09  8:39   ` Pavel Janík
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Janík @ 2002-05-09  8:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

   From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
   Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:26:19 -0600 (MDT)

   > I think it was used for lock files, but is not used for them nowadays.
   > So it can probably be eliminated.

I have removed it from make-dist so it will not end up in the distribution.
-- 
Pavel Janík

Make your program read from top to bottom.
                  --  The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)

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