Subject: Re: bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:16:59 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:07:41 +0200
> 
> And there is the case of remote files. Do we want locking of remote
> files?

I think we do.  maybe as an opt-in behavior?

> Should the respective lock file be local (better for performance) or
> also remote (better for locking a file being accessed from different
> Emacsen somewhere)?

Remote, I think, otherwise the lock can be easily ignored from another
machine.