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28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, ncaprisunfan <at> gmail.com, 49261 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49261: 28.0.50; File Locking Breaks Presumptuous Toolchains
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:50:15 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It's a bug.  Or maybe it was a bug, back then, because I think
> nowadays expand-file-name always converts backslashes to forward
> slashes.  And actually the fact that MAKE_LOCK_NAME looks for slashes
> in encoded file names is also a subtle bug (or at least unsafe code):
> some coding-systems don't guarantee that a '/' byte can never be part
> of a multibyte sequence.

Ah, cool, then I wasn't totally misreading the code.  :-)

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