Re: emacsclient and emacsclientw don't work in Windows Vista x64 RTM

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:09:00 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >
> > It turned out that the test below for execute access failed. That seems 
> > strange since indeed runemacs.exe can be executed. Is that perhaps a bug 
> > in MinGW or in w32? Or am I misunderstanding something? Where could I 
> > try to report this (potential) bug?
> >     
>
> According to this:
>
>   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1w06ktdy(VS.80).aspx
>
> the Windows version of `access' doesn't support X_OK at all, only
> F_OK, R_OK, and W_OK.
>
> I don't really understand why did you need that test.  The CVS version
> of emacsclient.c doesn't have such a test, AFAICS.
>   

Ah, thanks Eli. I did not know that X_OK was not supported (though 
somewhere in my head is a memory of hearing theis before).

This is for the code I have added in my patched version of emacsclient.c 
to start Emacs automatically. Since I wanted to avoid errors I tested as 
much as I could come up with. Some testing overkill I guess.

Now the automatic starting of Emacs seems to work very well on w32. If 
someone is interested I believe the code should run on other platforms too.