Re: [patch] file locking, v3

[Floris Kraak <floris snow nl>]

> The lockfile contains more information than you are using.  It would
> be nice if the message displayed it.  Adding the ability to break a
> potentially stale lock will require some extension to the io_context
> framework (similar in form to the password entry), so that is not
> necessary in the first pass.

You mean telling the user who is locking the file?
I've considered it, but wanted to fixup the acquire_lock and
relinquish_lock code first.

The latter .. do you mind if I postpone that for a later patch? It
sounds like that would have little overlap with the current code.
(but I could be wrong)

> I'll suggest doing something a touch more complicated and lifting
> the filename generation from vim.  It should not be too tough to
> pull out (it appears to live mostly in memline.c and io_file.c).
> This will give us a huge amount of pre-tested portability.

Yes. I've done a quick grep over the vim code but didn't get any
good matches; I'll take a look at it though.

Regards,
Floris Kraak
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