At 1996-08-12 03:48 +, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
>Second, the lock file names *have* to be world visible, in order for
>locking to actually work among users... hmm, your suggestion of a
>one-way hash make sense, I'll pass it upstream and see if it goes
>anywhere (xemacs has built in md5 support, bu
Package: emacs
Version: 19.29-3
My /var/lib/emacs/lock directory contains many old lock files.
I'm quite happy to believe that the occasional leftover lock is
unavoidable, but steps should be taken to clean them up.
Furthermore, all the pathnames for the lockfiles are world-readable.
This is not
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