From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116304: * lisp/desktop.el (desktop-read): Claim the lock when the owner is not the current process.
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:47:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2ixdgoi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871tzdq5er.fsf@mail.jurta.org
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>>> The one that comes last wins. The last session will do auto-saving,
>>> the previous won't. At least, there should be no conflict of both sessions
>>> trying to auto-save to the same file, because auto-saving checks the ownership.
>>> The conflict might occur when during exiting both sessions will try writing
>>> to the same file. I see nothing in `desktop-kill' that would prevent saving
>>> to a non-locked desktop, except the question "Save desktop?"
>>
>> That's not what I see today, I think. When I need to test something
>> in a fresh session, I sometimes by mistake invoke "emacs" instead of
>> "emacs -Q", which reads my ~/.emacs and activates desktop saving. The
>> main Emacs session is alive, of course. Then, when I exit, I'm asked
>> whether to save desktop and given the opportunity to say NO,
>
> When you invoke "emacs" instead of "emacs -Q" by mistake,
> it warns you about the mistake by asking
>
> "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID %s.
> Using it may cause conflicts. Use it anyway? "
>
> so you could just say NO.
It will still want to _save_ the desktop even if you answer No to
loading it.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-08 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.190526.1391788637.10747.emacs-diffs@gnu.org>
2014-02-07 16:20 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116304: * lisp/desktop.el (desktop-read): Claim the lock when the owner is not the current process Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-07 19:42 ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-07 20:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-08 10:11 ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-08 10:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-08 10:35 ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-08 10:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-08 19:32 ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-08 20:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-08 21:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-08 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-08 10:14 ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-08 10:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-02-08 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-08 11:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-08 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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