Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 18:46, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>    We have a variable `inhibit-clash-detection' for the purpose.
>
> I wonder if it is possible to determine automatically the best value
> for it.  To have multiple users on a machine requires serial terminals
> or services that allow remote login.  My laptop has neither, so it is
> impossible to have multiple users on it at once.

Is not the default today to have single users machines? And in other
cases have accounts setups so that clashes will not occur.

So isn't it better do avoid clash detection by default?