GNUstep lock issues

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I experience lately problems with "someone broke our lock" issues and 
other Lock related exceptions.
I have experienced this on NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, clang or gcc, it 
is not OS nor compiler dependant. It happens on plain uniprocessor 
computers.

I know that Gregory had some issues too. Greg, maybe you can add 
information?

Usually the nuiseance happens when launching a GS application when one 
is already running (e.g. one runs Terminal or GWorkspace and launches 
application X).
I think that latley it is happening really a lot.
The most common thing is that you canot start an application and get a 
popup. Retrying a couple of time helps.
Sometimes, like what happened just to me, you leave things running and 
get back to the computer and found one app died leaving that in the console.

Maybe writing defaults is related, but it could be something related.

It surely makes using more apps and thus having a Desktop quite have a 
bad thing now. I think we need to dig it out before release. The issue 
is... I have no way to reliably reproduce that.

Riccardo