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Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???
- From: Marc Girod <marc dot girod at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:18:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???
- References: <23655794.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A157FF5.6030407@cornell.edu> <23656848.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A159713.50303@cornell.edu> <23671375.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A16BEA9.8020608@cornell.edu> <23672879.post@talk.nabble.com>
Marc Girod wrote:
>
> Thanks. I'll try that.
>
That was: 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks tty'
The result is not fully satisfying.
E.g.:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 45 Jul 14 11:57 .#common.mk ->
emagiro@EV0016D4A35054.eemea.ericsson.se.4708
in a dired buffer, and which I cannot remove:
makesystem> rm -f .\#*
rm: cannot remove `.#common.mk': Permission denied
The process is still running indeed, but the lock/link doesn't
go away when I kill the buffer, or even exit emacs, as shown
with this one (elsewhere):
bin> ls -la .#select_config.pl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 45 Jun 26 16:09 .#select_config.pl ->
emagiro@EV0016D4A35054.eemea.ericsson.se.4620
This process has gone long ago!
The reason is the same I guess as the one for which I cannot
remove the link from the command line, and has to do either
with the fact the file system is CIFS mounted from a NetApp
filer, or with the fact this is not its real name.
I can access this filesystem from unix as well, and there, it
looks different, and I can remove it:
makesystem> ll .\#*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 emagiro at1 299 Jul 14 11:57 .#common.mk.lnk
makesystem> rm -f .\#*
makesystem> ll .\#*
.#*: No such file or directory
Gone now from the cygwin view as well.
But I understand this is the *old* symlink implementation,
as a file with a funny name, instead of as a reall sym link,
incurring the performance penalties, etc.
So, my next move now will be to set a find-file-hook to
check whether I am in a ClearCase view, and if so, to
make purify_flag buffer-local and set it to t.
I'll report my results...
Marc
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