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Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:15:03 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> Another option is for server-start to try and detect that there's
>> already an active socket (using server-running-p) and refuse
>> to start.

> That would be useful even for local servers using TCP sockets, but
> server-running-p currently does work only for local sockets.

Indeed, for TCP sockets it would be useful as well, but it risks
suffering from a long timeout.

> The following is a simple way to at least know whether there's a
> process called Emacs with the same pid that is stored in the
> authentication file.

That's a good alternative, tho it should check somehow that the server
is supposed to run on the same machine.


        Stefan




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