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Diffstat (limited to 'etc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ text-property on the first char. ** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'. -** The lock for 'DIR/FILE' is now 'DIR/.#FILE' or 'DIR/.#-FILE'. +** The lock for 'DIR/FILE' is now 'DIR/.#FILE' and may be a regular file. When you edit DIR/FILE, Emacs normally creates a symbolic link DIR/.#FILE as a lock that warns other instances of Emacs that DIR/FILE is being edited. Formerly, if there was already a non-symlink file @@ -328,9 +328,8 @@ named DIR/.#FILE, Emacs fell back on the lock names DIR/.#FILE.0 through DIR/.#FILE.9. These fallbacks have been removed, so that Emacs now no longer locks DIR/FILE in that case. -On MS-Windows the lock is a regular file DIR/.#-FILE, not a symlink. -MS-Windows and non-MS-Windows implementations of Emacs ignore each -other's locks. +On file systems that do not support symbolic links, the lock is now a +regular file with contents being what would have been in the symlink. ** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified. Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted |