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From: | Duncan Greatwood |
Subject: | bug#70973: 29.1; "Unlocking file: Invalid argument" Warning saving via a softlink with stale file lock |
Date: | Thu, 16 May 2024 09:20:46 -0700 |
> From: Duncan Greatwood <dgreatwood@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 08:55:17 -0700
> Cc: 70973@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I thought "ls -l" will show the target of
> > the symlink, but maybe it doesn't on macOS?
> It does indeed do that, even on macOS
>
> However, it is the .emacs that is a symlink.
>
> $ ls -l ~/.emacs
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 username staff 59 Dec 6 2015 .emacs ->
> /Users/username/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/emacs/dotemacs
>
> The lock file is not a link.
Is that normal on macOS? Or is that something specific to DropBox?
If you edit a file elsewhere on your system, does Emacs create lock
files that are symlinks?
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