Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs lock files Message-ID: <19981001183952.C24146@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810010845.BAA26182@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 01:45:46AM -0700 References: <199810010845.BAA26182@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Thursday, 1 October 1998 at 1:45:46 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Hi, > > I see that various emacsen install lock directories in all sorts of > different places. Can we merge them into one, or at least move them > to a more standardized location? In particular, I hate the ones in > /usr/local. (Writable directories in /usr/local?!?) > > Right now, we have > > emacs: /usr/local/com/emacs/lock > mule: /usr/local/com/mule/lock > xemacs: /var/run/xemacs/lock > > Is there a reason why they can't all share one directory? I don't > know about xemacs, but emacs/mule just have PID's in there so they > should be interchangable. Excellent idea. > If we can standardize them, I propose /var/run/emacs/lock. I'd prefer /var/emacs/lock, but since xemacs already uses /var/run/emacs/lock, it at least sounds like the best choice. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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