I wonder if others use a ".lock" extension instead of something like ".yaml" to indicate that this file shouldnt be edited manually? @wycats
I don't feel strongly about it because it was my idea (I admit that it was arbitrary initially) but at this point it's the dominant idiom.
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Further evidence: even in package managers that don't use the .lock extension, people use the term "lock file".
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People also use "lock file" to mean fs mutexes http://search.cpan.org/search?query=lock+file&mode=all … https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=lock%20file …
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I'm just saying, having interacted with file systems a lot, *.lock says to me "this is a fs mutex". Process hung, or left litter behind.
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Fwiw when pip gets lockfile support we intend to use the .lock extension.
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