bug#70973: 29.1; "Unlocking file: Invalid argument" Warning saving via a softlink with stale file lock

[Duncan Greatwood <dgreatwood@gmail.com>]

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AFAIK, there is nothing about the symlink that is macOS or DropBox specific.

Again, ~/.emacs is a symlink to the file in the subfolder of ~/Dropbox.

The lock file is not a symlink.

Emacs does not create lock files that are symlinks AFAIK.

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 9:09 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Duncan Greatwood <dgreatwood@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 08:55:17 -0700
> > Cc: 70973@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > I thought "ls -l" will show the target of
> > > the symlink, but maybe it doesn't on macOS?
> > It does indeed do that, even on macOS
> >
> > However, it is the .emacs that is a symlink.
> >
> > $ ls -l ~/.emacs
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 username  staff  59 Dec  6  2015 .emacs ->
> > /Users/username/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/emacs/dotemacs
> >
> > The lock file is not a link.
>
> Is that normal on macOS?  Or is that something specific to DropBox?
> If you edit a file elsewhere on your system, does Emacs create lock
> files that are symlinks?
>

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