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bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains
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Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:01:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi Eli,
>> Remote files (all files which match tramp-file-name-regexp). For
>> backward compatibility, and possibly due to performance reasons.
>
> You want a capability to exempt different kinds of files from locking?
> Why would that be a good idea? Performance doesn't cut it, IMO,
> because if one wants to be protected from clobbering, one doesn't care
> about performance. And if one cares about performance for those
> special kinds of files, it most probably means one doesn't care about
> file locking at all.
>
> So I submit that a binary switch is good enough.
Until now, there are no file locks for remote files at all. I thought disabling
it for remote files would be requested by some users for backward compatibility.
> In any case, now that make-lock-file-name is exposed to Lisp, they can
> override or advise it to do whatever they like, right?
Yes. But they cannot disable it. Advising the function is always
possible, but it is less convenient than a user option setting.
But well, let's see whether people shout ...
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, (continued)
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/07
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/07
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/08
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/08
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/09
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/09
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/09
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/09
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/12
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/12