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Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US> writes:

>>>>>> "GN" == Georg Nikodym <georgn@Canada.Sun.COM> writes:

GN> It is for the reasons Barry enumerates that I posted a patches
GN> that gave the builder the configure time option to disable
GN> file locking altogether.

Martin has integrated that patch for beta13.  It defaults to disabling 
file locking.  I suppose we should take a poll to vote on what the
default should be.  I'd like to see it enabled by default.

GN> Nobody cared at the time.  Perhaps, though, there's an
GN> archive?

> I'm just as happy to set lock-directory to something else, too!

That should be an option. It ought to be straightforward to configure
via elisp with the package code.

