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Re: persistent file locks
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
Re: persistent file locks |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:27:45 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't understand why would you need to lock the file in the first
> place. For starters, Emacs is quite capable of using the same file
> from more than one session: it closes the file as soon as write-region
> does its job. If you want to distinguish between log entries from
> different sessions, you can have the Emacs PID be part of the entry.
>
> [...]
Ok, thanks for the background. You've convinced me that I'd better not
use locks. I think I'll follow your advice and just prepend each log
line with the pid.
Thanks again,
Michael.