>> Emacs implements its locking protocol using symlinks with names >> that look like `.#<FILENAME>` and whose content looks like >> `u...@host.pid:BOOT_TIME`. > > Ah, good old dot-locking. Well, perhaps the OP can test whether it's > possible to create a symlink in that directory.
That's probably part of the problem, yet the error doesn't seem to come
from the code which would *create* the symlink but rather the one that
would delete it :-(
Stefan
