No, but I have tried now. I guess I understand the default behavior better now (even if I don't find it generally useful enough to be the default; how many users really have remotely mounted paths in `desktop-dirname'?).

But why does even cleanly exiting Emacs leave desktop file "apparently used"?

Paul

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 18:50, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:25:24 +0200
>
> The code in `desktop.el' should really check if the process with that PID still exists before claiming that it
> might be using the desktop file somehow.

AFAIU, you should be able to have that if you customize
desktop-load-locked-desktop to give it the value 'check-pid'. Did you
try that?