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[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 23 May 2024, Brian S. Baker [VIA BBUS] via Alpine-info wrote:


> The way you take care of that is you give it a signal 9 kill and

>  this will release the locks process because one of them will be

>  terminated.


Please only use kill -9 as a last resort.

If alpine is still running, kill -HUP will be sufficient and will
allow it to syncronize all open folders and remove locks safely.

kill -9 can leave files in unknown, unsafe states and destroy data.
This is as bad as what the locks are trying to avoid.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk