bug#62614: Tramp attempts to remove lock file with 'remote-file-name-inhibit-locks t

[Michael Albinus]

Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> writes:

Hi Yuri & Eli,

> On Mon, Apr 03 2023, Michael Albinus wrote:
>>> IMHO if lock creation is inhibited, we could still attempt to remove the
>>> lock to keep the old behavior, but then the warning shouldn't be
>>> generated as you don't expect the lock to exist in the normal case.
>>
>> That might be an option. But it wouldn't fix your use case, where you
>> try to avoid the file locking machinery for remote files at all.
>
> No, but it would fix an unexpected warning for both tramp and local
> files, which I think is beneficial.
>
> On Mon, Apr 03 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> How about trying to remove the lock file, but if creation of lock
>> files is disabled, suppressing the warning?
>
> As above.

See appended patch. Shall it go to the emacs-29 or master branch?

Best regards, Michael.

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