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


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#24656: 25.1; Emacs leaves lock files on a CIFS share
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:15:50 -0700
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On 10/11/2016 10:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Sounds fine to me.  I just tried this on a Windows filesystem, and it
allows that, so Samba should, too.

Unfortunately when I looked at the Emacs code more carefully, I found that '..' won't work because it will confuse older Emacs. So will '@'. Come to think of it, changing conventions in this area is likely to break interoperability not only with older Emacs, but also with other programs that attempt to work with Emacs's locking scheme.

I looked into Cygwin, and it seems to use U+F022 to represent '"', not ':'. So this is not Cygwin-related.

I looked at the original Red Hat bug report, and found that I could reproduce the problem with a simple C program, i.e., without Emacs or Cygwin. It appears to be a Samba bug. I added a comment to that effect to the Red Hat bug report.

I installed into Emacs master the attached patch, which should work around the Samba bug without introducing so many interoperability hassles, and am boldly marking the Emacs bug as done. It's not clear to me whether this change is worth backporting into emacs-25, as Emacs has locked files this way for ages.

Attachment: 0001-Work-around-Samba-bug-with-in-symlink-contents.patch
Description: Source code patch


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