Re: File locking doesn't work with symbolic links

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 1990 00:34

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In article <KWOOD.90Aug27011713@bigpig.austek.oz.au> kwood@austek.oz.au (Ken Wood) writes:

   If you use find-file on a symbolic link to a file and then modify the
   buffer, emacs will lock the link itself instead of the linked-to file.
   Thus it's possible to overwrite another persons modifications if one
   of you is using a symbolic link.

I developed a fix for this that makes Emacs always remove any symbolic
links from the pathnames it uses.  Thus, file locking is always done via a
canonical pathname.  If you need this, send me mail asking for
"symlink-fix.el".  I would post it again now, but I've been modifying it
and the modifications aren't tested thoroughly.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>

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Subject: Re: File locking doesn't work with symbolic links
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