Subject: Re: bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows

From: Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 19:58:08 +0000

Nicolas Bértolo <[email-masked]> writes:

>> As you said the problem is to decide who has the duty to remove the file
>> at last.  If each Emacs deposes a file says .foo.eln-pidxxx for the
>> whole time is using foo.eln should be easy for the last Emacs to
>> understand it is really the last and has to do the clean-up in the case
>> foo.eln was renamed in foo.eln*whatever
>
> That file would be create when opening foo.eln, but when
> Emacs is closing we don't know what file it refers to:
> - foo.eln
> - foo.eln.old
> - foo.eln.old2
> - foo.eln.oldN
>
> These last files could be created if foo.eln.old exists at the time of renaming.

Yes, but I think we could say: the last Emacs closing that used any file
that was (at a certain point in life) foo.eln removes all the old
foo.eln.*

If is the last using any of the foo.eln* it can do that safely no?

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