GNU bug report logs - #49261
28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mallchad Skeghyeph <ncaprisunfan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

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 #92 received at 49261 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, ncaprisunfan <at> gmail.com, 49261 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:50:38 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,  ncaprisunfan <at> gmail.com,  49261 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:17:22 +0200
> 
> Hm...  I think for simplicity's sake, it makes sense to always call the
> Lisp code.  Having two places where we insert ".#" into a file name just
> seems error prone, long term.

Btw, we could avoid having 2 places that produces the default
".#"+FILENAME lock file name by exposing to Lisp a C primitive which
does that.  So that problem can easily be solved.
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