I cannot identify exactly under what conditions it occurs, but Emacs (I'm using CVS emacs on 2009-09-11, but would probably happen under CVS HEAD as well) leaves a lot of symlinks of the form: .#file -> user_name@host_name.pid:boot_time `filelock.c' is creating the symlink for file-locking purposes but is failing to delete it. Under my current directory consisting of 28 regular files, I see three such instances: lrwxrwxrwx 1 ken ken 25 Oct 22 17:07 .#foo -> ken@hori.22964 :1256147335 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ken ken 25 Dec 1 22:32 .#foo2 -> ken@hori.19787 :1259696496 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ken ken 25 Dec 1 22:39 .#foo3 -> ken@hori.19787 :1259696496 Is this a bug that happens to people other than myself? Or is it just me, who extensively use indirect buffers and work under multiple frames? Also, if any, how do I prevent Emacs from creating such symlinks. Thanks.