From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 1 19:16:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13986 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:16:57 -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 TAA13980; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:16:53 -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 LAA03978; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:46:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA26317; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:46:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981002114632.U24146@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:46:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satoshi Asami Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs lock files References: <19981001183952.C24146@freebie.lemis.com> <199810010931.CAA26386@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810010931.CAA26386@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:31:49AM -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 2:31:49 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Greg Lehey > > * > 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. > > Glad to hear you agree. :) > > * > If we can standardize them, I propose /var/run/emacs/lock. > * > * I'd prefer /var/emacs/lock, > > No, it should be under /var/run. That's exactly where it belongs (man > 7 hier). I don't see anything there that suggests it belongs in this directory--quite the contrary: run/ system information files describing various info about system since it was booted utmp database of current users; see utmp(5) I interpret this to mean system-wide information, not information about locked files (which could just as well be stored in /var/spool/uucp/LCK). > > * but since xemacs already uses > * /var/run/emacs/lock, it at least sounds like the best choice. > > Well, xemacs actually uses /var/run/*xemacs*/lock but I didn't think > we should standardize on *that*. ;) On the other hand, it might make sense to consider whether we couldn't use symlinks. People are bound to do their own porting rather than to install a port, and the standard version would not find a lock made by the ported version. 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