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24.4.50; locked file error in rmail-insert-inbox-text

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17706: closed (24.4.50; locked file error in rmail-insert-inbox-text)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 10:49:01 +0000

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From: Ken Olum <kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50; locked file error in rmail-insert-inbox-text
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:10:25 -0400

If I have two invocations of emacs and in one I have modified but not
saved my RMAIL file, and then I try to read my mail in the other,
rmail-insert-inbox-text gives the error "RMAIL file ... is locked".  I
think it should call ask-user-about-lock instead, so I have the
opportunity to steal the lock and so forth.

This happens to me because I run emacs on the same server machine from
home and work, so if I go home without saving my mail file, I will get
this problem when I tried to read my mail from home.  But it seems to me
that it has only started happening recently, even though the code in
rmail-insert-inbox-text has been there a long time.  Previously I always
got the usual query: "... locked by kdo... (pid ....): (s, q, p, ?)?".
Perhaps it was formerly trying to modify file earlier in the process,
before the explicit check at the start of rmail-insert-inbox-text, and
so generating the usual query.

                                        Ken

In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
 of 2014-05-31 on cosmos
Repository revision: 115761 kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu-20140521165819-mg0m9yc98nkdigwg
Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.10903000
System Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND NOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB

Important settings:
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Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  auto-composition-mode: t
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  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /home/kdo/emacs-init.el (source)...done
Loading /home/kdo/emacs-init-mail.el (source)...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu
Cc: 17706-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Subject: Re: bug#17706: 24.4.50; locked file error in rmail-insert-inbox-text
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 13:48:40 +0300

> From: Mark Lillibridge <mdl <at> alum.mit.edu>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 13:23:12 -0700
> 
> 
>     This bug is still present in Emacs 24.5, but a claimed patch has
> been provided.  At a minimum, this should be moved to outstanding bugs
> -- normal bug; patch available unless there's a problem with the patch.
> Ideally, the patch should get applied... :-)

Sorry, I applied it now.  Unfortunately, it's too late for Emacs 25.1,
so the change is on the master branch, and will be in the next release
after that.

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