help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: emacsclient uses obsolete "server" file on Windows


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: emacsclient uses obsolete "server" file on Windows
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:15:49 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 15:48, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

Couldn't that be handled by checking the server file modification time?

There's an inherent race condition: you cannot be sure that the file
will not be overwritten after you check its timestamp.

Are all writing process on the same machine so that a simple semaphore can be used?




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]