Subject: bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:52:39 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:34:54 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Eli, if the results come back that using 0664 or similar on lockfiles
> resolves this, would you be amenable to such a change?

I'm not sure I understand the proposal.  Is the suggestion to chmod
the file to 0644 before calling unlink?  Or is the suggestion
something else?