Re: Emacs daemon restart?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

juliewith <galaxybeinglambda@gmail.com> writes:

> If I'm running emacsclient with an emacs daemon in the background and I make
> changes, say, to my .emacs, then I'd like to restart the entire emacs.
> Apparently M-x eval-buffer doesn't go emacs-wide, that is, I think I need to
> restart the daemon too, right? 

It should be enough, but you would have to be extracareful to make your
~/.emacs idempotent, and this would be hard.

> I've seen ways of killing the daemon, i.e.,
> (kill-emacs) etc., but is it possible to just restart the daemon?

There's no restart(2) syscall, no.  Only fork(2),  exec(2) and _exit(2).

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