At 1996-08-12 03:48 +0000, Mark W. Eichin wrote: >Second, the lock file names *have* to be world visible, in order for >locking to actually work among users... hmm, your suggestion of a >one-way hash make sense, I'll pass it upstream and see if it goes >anywhere (xemacs has built in md5 support, but emacs19 doesn't.)
Since it doesn't need to be cryptographically secure, why not MD4? -- Shields, CrossLink.
