Subject: Re: bug#53207: 28.0.91; create-lockfiles nil breaks file change detection

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:45:37 +0200

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:07:32 -0500
> From: "Jay Berkenbilt" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > My suggestion is to stop setting create-lockfiles to a nil value.  Why
> > is the non-nil value a problem?
> 
> Emacs lockfiles are dangling symbolic links. Some tools and systems don't
> like those.

Isn't that the reason we introduced lock-file-name-transforms?