Mercurial > emacs
changeset 17165:f36d8f965ab5
Fix typos in comment.
| author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:25:32 +0000 |
| parents | 024399a1b442 |
| children | 1c7f93c8670b |
| files | src/filelock.c |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/src/filelock.c Sat Mar 15 13:26:59 1997 +0000 +++ b/src/filelock.c Mon Mar 17 09:25:32 1997 +0000 @@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ 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 fiarly infrequently, and + environment, it seems such stale locks arise fairly 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, noawdays + files to be useful on old systems lacking symlinks, nowadays virtually all such systems are probably single-user anyway, so it didn't seem worth the complication.