Re: [vile] [PATCH] vileperl.rc (Was: Re: Odd vileserv error)

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Brendan O'Dea" <address@hidden>
| To: "J. Chris Coppick" <address@hidden>
| Cc: "Vile mailing list" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 7:12:55 PM
| Subject: [vile] [PATCH] vileperl.rc (Was: Re:  Odd vileserv error)
| 
| On 18 April 2015 at 08:25, J. Chris Coppick
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| > In theory, Vileserv will detect if it's already running and do the
| > right
| > thing so you MIGHT be able to do without the '~if &not &rd
| > "$HOME/.vilesock"'...
| 
| Indeed, it does do exactly the right thing.  Maybe that guy *did*
| know
| what he was on about...
| 
| So the test in the example rc file should probably be removed, as it
| will prevent Vileserv from recovering when there is an orphaned
| socket.  The two subsequent require lines are also superfluous to
| requirements.
| 
| Tom: suggested patch to the example attached.

duly noted (thanks)

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