Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116304: * lisp/desktop.el (desktop-read): Claim the lock when the owner is not the current process.

[Juri Linkov]

>> The problem was that when a session crashes, all subsequent sessions
>> can't auto-save the desktop since they didn't take the lock
>> from the crashed session.
>
> Surely I'm missing something, but what good is the lock if subsequent
> sessions can steal it even if the corresponding Emacs is still
> running?

Maybe we need a separate question in addition to the existing question

1. "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID %s.
    Using it may cause conflicts.  Use it anyway? "

something like

2. "Claim the lock from PID %s to take the ownership of the desktop file? "