Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It's my own installation only insofar as I habitually built from
> source (I did this with every weekly snapshot in the last four
> months), but I didn't change anything.

For the record, why do you rebuild each snapshot?  Not using unstable?

> I noticed that I get another file in this situation, a dangling
> symbolic link:

> .#bar -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1134898377

> Any idea how that comes and what it means?

It's an Emacs lock file.

> Surely [EMAIL PROTECTED] is <user>@<hostname>.<emacs-pid>, but I don't
> know the meaning of the the last number, which is always the same.

It's a Unix timestamp of course, and it represents the time at which
your computer was started.

pacem:~$ date -d @1134898377
Sun Dec 18 10:32:57 CET 2005
pacem:~$

> I will install your official binary emacs-snapshot packages and see if
> the problem still appears.  Anyway, it seems that I will have to debug
> it myself if other people don't see it.

OK, please keep me posted.  I'll tag this bug 'moreinfo' in the
meantime.

Thanks,

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