[slime-devel] LOAD-SYSTEM and stealing file locks

[Helmut Eller]

Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:

> I've recently noticed that when I do a ,load-system and Emacs offers
> to save modified files, it complains about the files being locked by
> another process and asking if I want to steal the lock etc. However
> the PID it gives is in fact my Emacs process. So I wonder if SLIME is
> doing something funny under the covers--I can't imagine what but I
> finally correlated this with usin ,load-system so I'm hoping someone
> here might just know what's going on.

Should be fixed now.  It was one of those dynamic scoping bugs.  We
had a local variable "system-name", but that wasn't so good because
system-name is used when for creating lock filenames.

Helmut.