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

[Jan Synacek]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:49:11 +0200
>> Cc: 24656@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> The lock_file_1 correctly uses a path with a colon in it. Indeed,
>> samba seems to substitute it. I tried to patch the emacs source to use
>> a comma instead. It didn't get substituted by samba, but the lock file
>> didn't go away when I exited emacs.
>
> Did you also patch current_lock_owner to account for the change from a
> colon to a comma?

Aha! After patching current_lock_owner, the lock file is correctly
removed. I'm attaching the patch.

Thank you!
-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat

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