king@UKULELE.REASONING.COM (06/06/91)
>> simon@liasun2.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes: >> >> >... and you have to edit in two Emacses on the same machine, because >> >the locking stuff does not work over NFS. >> >> I believe it does, but only if the lock directory is also shared among >> the machines. >> I wrote the stuff and it doesn't, for a cruddy reason; the lock system refuses to believe a lock that claims to come from a process that doesn't exist [on the machine making the test]. This was done before clusters of workstations NFSing was the norm. Merely removing this check would help, but it is far from perfect because files are known by their name and the name may well be different from different machines. For example my home directory is /cymbal/usr/reasoning/king/ except on cymbal [one of our machines] where it's /usr/reasoning/king/ . I've been meaning to do something a lot better Real Soon Now [tm] but suddenly got very busy. -dk
bc@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU (06/07/91)
Ok; makes sense to me. -- Ben