Ken Brown wrote on Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:02 PM: > On 5/21/2009 1:04 PM, Marc Girod wrote: >> Ken Brown-6 wrote: >>> They should disappear each >>> time you save the file you're editing. >>> >> Well, they don't. >> The content was slightly blurred, because of my using html format >> and forgetting to escape <> characters. As well as a couple of tags. > > I'm puzzled as I look at your first post again, because emacs file locks > are symbolic links. Your post shows that the files are ordinary files > containing the string '<symlink>'. This suggests that you're working in > an environment that doesn't recognize cygwin symlinks. Could that > somehow explain why they aren't being deleted when you save the file?
It's likely that those files *ARE* symlinks; under Cygwin 1.7, symlinks are implemented as normal files (rather than Windows shortcuts) with a particular magic number. I'm not sure what Marc was doing with his original 'cat .# ... | tr' command, but I'm guessing it is removing the magic number so 'od -c' will print out the contents. > According to the emacs documentation: > >> When you make the first modification in an Emacs buffer that is >> visiting a file, Emacs records that the file is "locked" by you. (It >> does this by creating a specially-named symbolic link in the same >> directory.) Emacs removes the lock when you save the changes. > > Here's an example of an emacs file lock on my system, while I'm editing > 'diary': > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbrown None 18 May 21 13:15 .#diary -> > kbr...@markov.5828 > > 5828 is the PID of my emacs process. As soon as I save the file, the > symbolic link disappears. > > Ken -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
