Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Emacs implements its locking protocol using symlinks with names
>> that look like `.#<FILENAME>` and whose content looks like
>> `USER@HOST.PID:BOOT_TIME`.
>
> Ah, good old dot-locking.  Well, perhaps the OP can test whether it's
> possible to create a symlink in that directory.

That's probably part of the problem, yet the error doesn't seem to come
from the code which would *create* the symlink but rather the one that
would delete it :-(


        Stefan