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Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
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John Wiegley writes:

 > I concur.  This is an annonying feature which has never once made
 > any difference to me.  I've been wanting a way to disable it for
 > months now.

XEmacs experience also is that users want to be able to disable this.
We have a variable `inhibit-clash-detection' for the purpose.