bug#23033: 24.5; Lock file uses the same extension as the file it's locking

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

>> The default file sort order in UTF-8 locales ignores punctuation
>> characters.
>
> So how about using ".#foo#" instead of ".#foo"?

Is there any reason we don't just call these files .#foo.lock" or
something?  Putting "lock" into the name would make it clearer to the
users what these things are.

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