Re: [Gnu-arch-users] those pesty .#blah emacs symlinks

[Robert Anderson]

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> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Robert Anderson wrote:
>  
>
> > Some of my developers are complaining about always having to
> > remove .#blah emacs symlink droppings so they can commit.
> >    
> [...]
>
> Not a solution, but a tentative explanation: since Emacs
> doesn't really crash (does it?). I have observed this to
> hapen quite frequently when editting over ssh sessions
> tunneled through a firewall. Maximum inactivity period
> passes, link falls down and there you have it.
>
> Might suggest a way to solve things (use tramp or keep
> your local tree locally or what not).
>
> Regards
> -- tomás
>
>  
This is probably a large source of it, since almost everything we do is 
over ssh through a firewall.

Unfortunately, neither of those solutions makes any sense for us.

Bob