Re: desktop.el and his lock file

[Miles Bader]

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:
> here is the code i put after line 967 in desktop.el:
>
> the function is desktop-read
> ,----
> | (if (and owner
> |          (eq 0 (call-process-shell-command (format "ps -u %s | grep emacs | 
> grep %d" (getenv "USER") owner)))
> |          .....
> `----

It might be better to use the `signal-process' function with signal
number 0 -- that will just check to see if the process exists and return
an appropriate exit code (0 = exists, -1 = doesn't exist), without
actually sending any signal.

[I guess it won't work on windows, but presumably neither does your
pipeline... :-]

-Miles

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