Why no stale lock detection on windows?

[brentDSL]

Hi -

I am debugging some code on windows and its fairly often that stale locks get left around. I see that stale lock remove is not listed as a windows feature and its intentionally disabled in the code. I was just wondering why this is the case?

Thanks!

[brentDSL]

Looks like windows aggressively recycles PIDs...

[brentDSL]

Storing the process creation time in the lock file can address this, its probably a good cross platform improvement as well

[gaborbernat]

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