From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 1 02:10:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15467 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15447 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA01243; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:53 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA24223; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:52 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981001183952.C24146@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs lock files References: <199810010845.BAA26182@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810010845.BAA26182@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 01:45:46AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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