Re: Locking files for CLASH_DETECTION now supported on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:39:00 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, file names that start with a period are pretty unusual on
> > Windows, and a with period followed by a hash sign are extremely rare
> > outside of the Emacs world.  E.g., I have 73 such files on my disk,
> > all of them from Emacs sessions.
> 
> I have 109 (on a GNU/Linux system), all apparently associated with CVS,
> not Emacs.

I have those, too.  But I don't think they present any danger, because
they end in telltale .X.Y numeric tails, and are generally larger than
the 1.3KB limit used by filelock.c on Windows to reject non-lockfiles.