From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30421: 25.3; desktop.el: Steal lock when no living "emacs" process owns it Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:40:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871shram2i.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518381571 2254 195.159.176.226 (11 Feb 2018 20:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 30421@debbugs.gnu.org To: Pierre Neidhardt Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 11 21:39:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyP4-0007ku-ER for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:39:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyR4-00064b-4q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:41:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQp-00062S-1S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQo-0007z9-9c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58974) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQo-0007yy-6P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQn-0000Kr-VR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:41:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30421 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 30421-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30421.15183816261233 (code B ref 30421); Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30421) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Feb 2018 20:40:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38638 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQD-0000Jo-C5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58410) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQB-0000JY-4k for 30421@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQ4-0007C5-OO for 30421@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:40:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQ1-000793-SI; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ekyQ1-0007GE-3P; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:40:13 -0500 In-reply-to: <871shram2i.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Pierre Neidhardt on Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:54:13 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143169 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It's problematic however when Emacs gets killed and does not release the > lock. Upon next start, desktop-save-mode will refuse to save because > the lock exists, even though no process is using it. Does the same issue exist in VC? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.