Tony wrote:
> If Vim is reloaded after a crash there will usually be one or more
> ATTENTION (E325) messages. This is usually no problem for me as I save
> my work at regular intervals, which means that I can usually delete
> the swapfiles left standing after the crash (they will have "modified:
> no"). However (especially after a system crash and a reboot) sometimes
> the PID of the previous Vim has been reused, the ATTENTION message
> says "(still running)" and the "delete" option is not available, even
> though the program currently using that PID is not the Vim which
> created the swapfile (and then crashed, or was involved in a system
> crash). I'm not sure if (and how) it is possible to get over this
> problem. Maybe in the (still running) case the ATTENTION message could
> list the name of the program currently using that PID, and still offer
> the "delete" option (possibly with an "are you sure" confirmation) if
> that name isn't one of those (vim, gvim, view, etc.; even vi nowadays)
> usually associated with a Vim executable?
This is a corner case that is difficult to deal with.
There is no standard way to get the name of a process from the pid.
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