Re: lock mechanism like in desktop.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> desktop.el has a lock mechanism that is independent of external
> programs.  I'd prefer such a solution.  Maybe the lock mechanism in
> desktop.el could be made more generic (and moved from desktop.el to
> simple.el/files.el?)  so that other packages could use it without
> duplicating the code (and loading desktop.el).

We already have such functionality (lock-buffer, unlock-buffer,
file-locked-p), or am I missing something?


        Stefan