From: djc <peter.kaiser@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: {file} "locked by ... pid NNN", but there is no process NNN
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 08:12:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a0feba2-1cf6-498f-bbea-7fca8ce5d56e@googlegroups.com> (raw)
With a single instance of emacs running a function of my own on a file that makes no use of external activities, I get the message
...{file} locked by AB@CDE (pid 3964): (s, q, p, ?)?
but there is no process with PID 3964 and no other emacs running. There *is* another buffer open on the file under a different pathname ("~/..." vs "X:\..."), though I don't know how that happened, since I dragged the file from a Windows Explorer window to visit it.
I found myself facing this message while debugging that function, which blocked or looped with high CPU usage when run in batch mode on that file or a similar one.
The message seems wrongheaded to me, but what's the best response to the problem?
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64_mingw32) of 2015-04-12 on KAEL
djc
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-09 16:12 djc [this message]
2016-01-09 16:36 ` {file} "locked by ... pid NNN", but there is no process NNN djc
2016-01-09 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-19 10:40 ` djc
2016-01-19 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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