From: djc <peter.kaiser@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: {file} "locked by ... pid NNN", but there is no process NNN
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 02:40:21 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7102eea-0542-45fc-93d2-9946f8c63636@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a0feba2-1cf6-498f-bbea-7fca8ce5d56e@googlegroups.com>
The situation was too complex and too intermittent to simplify easily for diagnosis, but I think I know generally what's happening: emacs is failing to delete its own lock of a file that I was working on once, but either (1) whose buffer has been killed or (2) where the lock has survived exiting and re-opening emacs.
On Windows, emacs also doesn't necessarily release Windows handles of files and directories for which it no longer has any associated buffer. I've seen this repeatedly.
djc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-19 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-09 16:12 {file} "locked by ... pid NNN", but there is no process NNN djc
2016-01-09 16:36 ` djc
2016-01-09 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-19 10:40 ` djc [this message]
2016-01-19 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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