Subject: Re: Question: Can't expunge messages because folder is in use

From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 23:02:36 GMT

Rufus Nagel ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have a quick question. I interupted a Pine session with ctrl-Z....now
: every time I use pine, I cannot expunge my messages because it thinks the 
: folder is in use. (Yes I did kill the process, logout and everything)

In the same directory as you find the folder, you will find a file named 
folder-name.lock.  Remove it.  This is how Pine handles locking 
notification.  If it finds this file, it knows another process has it 
locked, and it can go looking for that process and ask it politely to 
relinquish the lock.  If there is no process identifiable, it just waits 
for five minutes until it overrides the lock by force.  At least, it does 
this on the INBOX.  It sounds like its not doing that for your folder, 
but I don't know the code well enough to know if it should.

Gunther Anderson

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From: [email-masked] (Rufus Nagel)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 16:14:57 GMT

>but I don't know the code well enough to know if it should.
I can't find any file, anywhere with the name "*.lock" I used the find command
to do this...it is my INBOX that is locked. It is pine version 3.90 if that
makes any difference...
Rufus