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Mar 17, 1997
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Karl Heuer
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Fix typos in comment.
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@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ extern int errno;
that's too unreliable. Hence the separate file, which could
theoretically be updated by daemons running separately -- but this
whole idea is unimplemented; in practice, at least in our
environment, it seems such stale locks arise f
i
arly infrequently, and
environment, it seems such stale locks arise fa
i
rly infrequently, and
Emacs' standard methods of dealing with clashes suffice.
We use symlinks instead of normal files because (1) they can be
stored more efficiently on the filesystem, since the kernel knows
they will be small, and (2) all the info about the lock can be read
in a single system call (readlink). Although we could use regular
files to be useful on old systems lacking symlinks, no
a
wdays
files to be useful on old systems lacking symlinks, now
a
days
virtually all such systems are probably single-user anyway, so it
didn't seem worth the complication.
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