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Date:      Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:31:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        grog@lemis.com
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: emacs lock files
Message-ID:  <199810010931.CAA26386@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981001183952.C24146@freebie.lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:52 %2B0930)

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 * From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>

 * > 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).

 * 			       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*. ;)

Satoshi

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