bug#24656: 25.1; Emacs leaves lock files on a CIFS share

[Achim Gratz]

Paul Eggert writes:
> On 10/10/2016 11:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Paul, do you see any reasons not to make this change?  Could the comma
>> be problematic in some cases?  If so, can we try some other character,
>> perhaps?
>
> If we're going to change it, I suggest choosing a character from the
> POSIX portable file name character set
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_266#tag_03_276>,
> as this is the most likely to work across a wide variety of POSIXish
> file systems. So, how about using "." instead of ":"?

You could maybe copy what Cygwin does if you need to handle wierdd characters in
file names:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars


Regards,
Achim.
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