added question: creating locks during --batch operations

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+Are there locks that git-annex holds for the entirety of e.g. `git-annex-get --batch`?
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+As part of [[forum/auto-fetching_annexed_files_on_open__40____41__]], I'd like to keep one or more long-running `git-annex-get --batch` processes and pipe the keys I need fetched as needed, rather than start a new git-annex process for each key.   But, this only makes sense if, while waiting to read more keys from stdin, git-annex is no holding locks that could interfere with other git-annex calls.