Re: Not reloading the desktop; already loaded

[Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>]

On 10/28/22 9:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:27:12 -0800
>> From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
>>
>>> I assume yours is an interactive (i.e., no "--batch") session, so the
>>> condition that applies in your case is the one about the "owner" of
>>> the desktop file.  So the problem is that the desktop file was (of
>>> course) written by the same Emacs process as the current one, and you
>>> need to work around that.  One way is to override the definition of
>>> desktop-owner.
>> How would I do that? (feel free to point to documentation and I will
>> also search
>> on your last phrase)
> The simplest way is to define your own version of that function that
> is similar, but not identical.  A less brute-force way is to "advise"
> the function; see the node "Advising Functions" in the ELisp manual.
>
>>>     Another way is to release the desktop file lock before
>>> you load the second one, and then re-lock it afterwards.
>> Again: how would I do that?
> Look at the functions in desktop.el which do that: desktop-claim-lock
> and desktop-release-lock.  You can call them from your code.
>
>>>    And there
>>> are probably others.
>> Sure, such as use elisp instead of bash to delete the file lock ...
> Deleting the lock is not something I'd recommend.  It is there for a
> reason.
>
Thank you Eli. I am good to go.
Regards

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Tim
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