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bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:58:21 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:55:55 +0200
> Cc: 49261@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Mallchad Skeghyeph <ncaprisunfan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > ...even if the lock files are symlinks (which they not necessarily
> > are), we need to handle the case of several files with identical
> > basenames in different directories. (Their being symlinks is
> > unimportant, because the target of the symlink doesn't exist.)
> >
> > Actually, is there even a good reason to keep relying on symlinks in the
> > future?
> > Considering that.. ahem, some Operating Systems cannot do symlinks for the
> > user?
> > If it were treated as a normal file you could load it up with whatever
> > metadata
> > you want.
>
> Using a normal file should also work, I think? But it'd be slightly
> less efficient on some common popular file systems.
We already use regular files on systems on which symlinks are either
unsupported or otherwise problematic.
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/01
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/01
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/01
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/01
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/02
- bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains, Michael Albinus, 2021/07/02
- 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, 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, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/07