GNU bug report logs - #53207
28.0.91; create-lockfiles nil breaks file change detection

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb <at> ql.org>

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.91

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb <at> ql.org>
Cc: 53207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53207: 28.0.91; create-lockfiles nil breaks file change detection
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:45:37 +0200

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:07:32 -0500
> From: "Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb <at> ql.org>
> Cc: 53207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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?
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