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Save file locks in centralized location

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Message #14 received at 31908 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Radon Rosborough <radon.neon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, 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: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:34:50 +0200

Radon Rosborough <radon.neon <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

If implemented, this feature would almost certainly be off by default,
so no existing users would end up being surprised.

Robert

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