bug#549: emacsclient or emacsclientw not waiting in Windows

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Vesa Suontama wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Windows Vista SP1, and when using emacsclient or emacsclientw, 
> they always return immediately with return value 1, and do not wait 
> making it useless as EDITOR for command line utilities which should wait.
>
> I use the emacsclient from cmd.exe and not from cygwin. I also started 
> emacs with –q, and started server manually after that, so no startup 
> file should be causing this.
>
> Is this a known issue?
>
> Otherwise I love emacs :)
>
> Vesa
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001)
>
>  of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE
>
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.0.6001


I do not have Emacs 22 here. However I just tested with CVS Emacs 23, 
both unpatched and the patched version that comes with Emacs+EmacsW32. I 
saw no problem, both emacsclient and emacsclientw waited as expected.

Some notes:

- Please use -Q (uppercase), not -q (lowercase). -q will still run 
site-start.el

- If you test from a console window (running cmd.exe) then please note 
that emacsclientw can not make cmd.exe wait for it. I can't remember the 
technical terms for it but w here stands for "window, GUI". Program 
linked as GUI applications do not use a console window (by default). 
They can not write to a console and if started from a console the 
console will not wait for them.