On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:08:57AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Because the error says it cannot use LOCKS. > > Because you can't do Unix file locking on a non-Unix file system. > > The error does NOT say "Permission denied". > > FWIW, the error comes from Emacs's own locking code which doesn't seem > to use unix file locking, so the problem comes from elsewhere. > > 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.
