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bug#31636: 27.0.50; lockfile syntax searchable from info manual


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#31636: 27.0.50; lockfile syntax searchable from info manual
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:20:48 -0700
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On 05/29/2018 09:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I'd be interested to hear Paul's take on this, as someone who worked
on the related code not too long ago.  Paul?

On the one hand this is low-level detail. On the other, it is user-visible detail, e.g., when I use dired or 'ls' on a directory I'll see the symlinks. So I'd be mildly inclined to see a brief mention in the user manual with details as necessary in the elisp manual. The user manual could say something simple like 'lock files are directory entries whose names begin with ".#"'. If more details are needed, they could be in the elisp manual (e.g., MS-Windows lock names are independent of lock names of other systems).





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