bug#3128: Bug#3128: emacsclient 22.3 race condition when launching emacs is required

[Glenn Morris]

Terence Dineen wrote:

> $ echo $ALTERNATE_EDITOR
> /sandbox/bin/emacs
> $ emacsclient foo
> emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
>
> The newly launched emacs has a buffer open on foo but not as a server
> buffer.
>
> emacsclient is waiting for a done message from emacs and emacs is acting as
> though it was launched by emacsclient using the --no-wait option.


I don't really understand what you are saying the problem is, but if
you get the 23.0.95 pretest from

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.95.tar.gz

I think that

emacsclient -c -a "" foo

might do what you want it to do.