GNU bug report logs - #31908
Save file locks in centralized location

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Radon Rosborough <radon.neon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 31908 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Radon Rosborough <radon.neon <at> gmail.com>
To: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz <at> gnu.org, 31908 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31908: Save file locks in centralized location
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:29:26 -0600

> If users had their own custom location for locks, surely the locking
> would cease to have any significant purpose [...] The utility would
> be reduced to preventing you from simultaneously using multiple
> separate emacs instances to edit/write a given file.

I run a single-user system; preventing concurrent edits is the only
purpose of the locking mechanism for me. This feature would hardly
remove "any significant purpose" from it.
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