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Re: {file} "locked by ... pid NNN", but there is no process NNN
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djc |
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Re: {file} "locked by ... pid NNN", but there is no process NNN |
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Tue, 19 Jan 2016 02:40:21 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
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