On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> It is not the case that the current lock file names are always listed next to the files they are clocking:
>
> mgsloan@treetop:~/test$ ls -la                                                                                                       
> total 8                                                                                                                             
> drwxrwxr-x  2 mgsloan mgsloan 4096 Nov  9 16:36  .                                                                                   
> drwxr-xr-x 57 mgsloan mgsloan 4096 Nov  9 16:35  ..
> -rw-rw-r--  1 mgsloan mgsloan    0 Nov  9 16:36  .#test.md
> -rw-rw-r--  1 mgsloan mgsloan    0 Nov  9 16:36 '#.test.md'
> -rw-rw-r--  1 mgsloan mgsloan    0 Nov  9 16:35  test.md

I agree that it is easy to cook an example where this doesn't happen,
but usually it does.

Indeed!  And appending ".lock" to a file name is also typically adjacent in listings, and it is easy to cook an example where it is not.