GNU bug report logs - #29955
25.2; stale lock files can hang emacs --batch

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>

Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 00:58:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 25.2, 24.5

Fixed in versions 26.2, 27.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 29955 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
Cc: 29955 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29955: 25.2; stale lock files can hang emacs --batch
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:58:42 -0500

David Bremner wrote:

>         tempdir=$(mktemp -d)
>         echo working in $tempdir
>         cd $tempdir
>         touch foo
>         ln -s user <at> example.com.5423:1487632643 .#foo
>         emacs -Q --batch  --eval "(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook (lambda () (write-file \"foo\")))"

Great recipe, thanks.
I'd hoped this issue (which is the same as https://debbugs.gnu.org/22622,
by the way) would have been fixed by

http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-diffs/2017-04/msg00178.html

but it sadly it seems not, for reasons not immediately apparent to me.
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