Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: those pesty .#blah emacs symlinks

[tomas]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:09:36PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Hmm... so Emacs should die after receiving a signal like SIGHUP or
> somesuch, so it has plenty of occasion to remove the .#foo files.
> Maybe a bug report is in order.

I just tried (Emacs 21.3.50.1), and in fact, the #blah# file remains
after a SIGHUP (this is desired behaviour: after all that's what
a backup is for) whareas the .#blah (the lock) gets cleaned up.

regards

-- tomás