[Zope-dev] .lock files on Windows

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi,

With Plone 4 and thus Zope 2.12.10, we've noticed a problem that I
think only affects Windows. Can anyone confirm or shed some more
light?

Basically, if we run an instance (installed via
plone.recipe.zope2instance as bin\instance) in the foreground
(bin\instance fg) and then kill it with Ctrl+C, the var\instance.lock
and var\instance.pid files are not cleaned up. These need to be
manually deleted, otherwise Zope refuses to start up with the
confusing message "Please stop the instance before starting it".

Martin