bug#8953: 23.3.50; Should desktop.el claim lock when told to ignore another process?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> When Emacs has not shut down cleanly (e.g. when I log out of my GNOME
> desktop without first quitting Emacs), then on restart desktop.el finds
> a lockfile and prompts me to ask whether I really want to load the
> desktop. If I answer “y” it loads fine, but does not claim the lock, so
> the desktop is not saved; in particular, it’s not auto-saved (I have
> code to save the desktop in my auto-save-hook).
>
> Should desktop.el claim the lock if the user decides to ignore an existing 
> lockfile?

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

Are you still seeing this problem in more recent versions of Emacs?  If
you are, I think desktop should.  I'm not a desktop user, though, so do
you have a step-by-step recipe to reproduce this bug, starting from
"emacs -Q"?

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