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On 03 Oct 2000 18:10:42 -0400, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:

>> Suppose that the next time my running Gnus hasn't saved all changes
>> before I go home and it happens again?

Paul> You might add a hook function to create a lock file when Gnus
Paul> starts, signaling an error if it already exists.  Add another
Paul> hook for when Gnus exists to delete the file.

And if it detects the other, remote session and exits, how does one
then get to use Gnus? How can you safely terminate the remote running
Gnus session? If it was reading news/mail and hadn't saved its buffers
then simply "kill"ing it would potentiall lose a lot of your state.