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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: jsynacek@redhat.com, 24656@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:46:58 -0700
> 
> On 10/11/2016 01:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Do you see any
> > dangers in the patch that would make it prudent to give this change a
> > longer testing phase than what we will have before 25.2?
> 
> No, the variant I installed into master should be pretty safe in that 
> regard, as it avoids the interoperability issues inherent in instituting 
> a new syntax, and the pattern it's looking for is unlikely to appear in 
> scenarios that do not involve Emacs and this buggy file system.

That was my impression as well, so I think it should be backported to
the release branch.

Thanks.