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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye
From:       Stefan Monnier <monnier () iro ! umontreal ! ca>
Date:       2021-04-20 15:36:00
Message-ID: jwvk0oxnf4r.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.user () gnu ! org
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>> Emacs implements its locking protocol using symlinks with names
>> that look like `.#<FILENAME>` and whose content looks like
>> `USER@HOST.PID:BOOT_TIME`.
>
> Ah, good old dot-locking.  Well, perhaps the OP can test whether it's
> possible to create a symlink in that directory.

That's probably part of the problem, yet the error doesn't seem to come
from the code which would *create* the symlink but rather the one that
would delete it :-(


        Stefan

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