Re: A few questions about desktop.el

[Lars Hansen]

Stuart D. Herring wrote:

>So what happens if you turn desktop-save-mode off, another Emacs loads,
>locks, overwrites, and unlocks the file, and then you turn
>desktop-save-mode back on?  (The desktop file's buffer (if it is made to
>have one) will always be unmodified unless the user explicitly finds it
>and changes it; desktop does not use a buffer as some sort of "scratch
>pad" whose state of modification would reflect the state of the abstract
>desktop.)  Besides, someone could have a "standard desktop" that they load
>frequently but save rarely, and so never have desktop-save-mode turned on.
> Then they might occasionally improve on or update the standard, and issue
>an explicit (desktop-save) which would take place without the protections
>of file locking.
>  
>
I see your point.

>I encourage the testing of my patch to see if its behavior is close enough
>to everyone's idea of safe, correct, vigilant, and intuitive.
>  
>
I will do so. Thanks.