bug#20762: 24.3; Emacs Desktop does not allow quit emacs when on read-only file system

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sergey Fukanchik <fukanchik@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. enable (desktop-save-mode 1)
> 2. do some activity: create modified buffers, open some files etc
> 3. remount the FS where desktop saved into R/O mode mount -o remount,ro /
> 4. Try exiting emacs C-x C-c
> 5. emacs will ask if you want to save files etc and in the end - a
> message in minibuffer saying desktop.lock could not be deleted (see below)
> Error while saving the desktop.  Ignore?  y
> desktop-release-lock: Removing old name: read-only file system,
> /home/fuxx/.emacs.desktop.lock

This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

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