Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 21:48:55 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs lock files Message-ID: <199810011948.VAA11472@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Oct 1998 01:45:46 PDT." <199810010845.BAA26182@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi Asami writes:
>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.
>
>If we can standardize them, I propose /var/run/emacs/lock.
>
seems reasonable to me, but this means that the !xemacs will need a
shell script to recreate the directory after /etc/rc clobbers it.
xemacs{,20} already has one.
---
Gary Jennejohn
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