Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation

[Daniel Colascione]

On 7/26/11 7:42 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> Those symlinks that emacs creates to help avoid collisions between users
> editing simultaneously cause me lots of pain and no gain, so I propose
> the enclosed patch that allows me to disable the feature.

Count me among those who would like to disable clash detection.  I would prefer,
however, that instead of a simple disabling mechanism we provide a generic Lisp
hook, i.e., a new lock-file-function variable, which could be set to 'ignore.
This way, we provide mechanism, not policy, at the C level, and allow more
experimentation with alternate locking strategies.

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