Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 2023-08-11 14:49, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Paul: With this simplification, you may consider using the 'boot-time' module
>> in Emacs. I bet that it produces a better result than Emacs' src/filelock.c
>> on many platforms. (I haven't tested it, but I could test it if you give me
>> a manual testing recipe.)
>
> Thanks for doing all that. I installed the attached patch into Emacs
> master, which you should be able to test via:
>
> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git
> cd emacs
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make
> src/emacs
>
> Please give it a try, especially on any MS-Windows platform you happen
> to have. I have tested only on Ubuntu 23.04 so far.
>
> A simple way to test is to use Emacs to start editing a file (without
> saving) and then inspect the symbolic link .#* that Emacs uses as a
> lock file. The trailing digits of that link's contents should be the
> boot time. These symlinks are Emacs's only use of boot time.
During the automated build of the Android port, the following errors
were encountered with the Android NDK r10b and __ANDROID_API__ set to 8
(which is the oldest configuration Emacs supports.) Bruno, would you
please investigate this?
In file included from boot-time.c:54:0:
boot-time-aux.h: In function 'get_linux_uptime':
boot-time-aux.h:70:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysinfo'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
if (sysinfo (&info) >= 0)
^
boot-time.c: In function 'get_boot_time_uncached':
boot-time.c:111:26: error: 'BOOT_TIME' undeclared (first use in this function)
if (ut->ut_type == BOOT_TIME)
^
boot-time.c:111:26: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
each function it appears in
boot-time.c:126:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'endutent'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
END_UTMP_ENT ();
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
