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Re: lock files in /home???



bam@debian.org (Brian May) writes:
> Is it really required to have file locks under $HOME? Wouldn't, say
> /tmp be more appropriate?

Depends. If the subject of locking is, 
say, your maildir on a shared home, 
you wouldn't want a nautilus on another 
machine ruin your mail, hence just one lockfile
for your networked machines.

So better get the locking to work in some way
or disable it in nautilus (with a giant warning sign...)


Yours,
Steffen

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