hard to programmatically break a lock

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

From IRC:

<lifeless> mwhudson: if you mutex them yourself, just do:
<lifeless> if branch.get_physical_status(): branch.break_lock()
<lifeless> unconditionally.
<lifeless> you'll need to do something to handle the prompts for y/n that the ui layer will make
<lifeless> break_lock is rather ui centric
[...]
<lifeless> poolie is cleaning up that interface; please file a bug about needing a programmatic break-lock facility

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Agreed.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Would it be bad to break the lock and cleanup automatically if there is no process with the lockers pid?

[Martin Packman (gz)]

With the changes from bug 220464 `force_break()` may be good enough here.