bug#1700: marked as done (23.0.60; Please provide a way to know if --daemon is supported)

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> 23.0.60; Please provide a way to know if --daemon is supported
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> Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:03:44 -0800 (PST)
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> Currently I have a script that tries to use --daemon, but if it is not
> supported falls back on creating an ordinary (mtty, or nothing) Emacs
> session.  The test it uses for this is:
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>     emacs --batch -q --no-site-file --daemon >/dev/null 2>&1
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> However after my last weekly upgrade, this test fails even when
> --daemon is supported.  Please provide a way to test for --daemon
> support that will fail immediately on Emacs 21 and 22 (rather than
> just launching an ordinary Emacs), and will succeed immediately when
> --daemon is supported.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
>  of 2008-12-22 on elegiac, modified by Debian
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> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 09:43:09AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2008-12-25 09:03 +0100, trentbuck@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > Currently I have a script that tries to use --daemon, but if it is not
> > > supported falls back on creating an ordinary (mtty, or nothing) Emacs
> > > session.  The test it uses for this is:
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> > >     emacs --batch -q --no-site-file --daemon >/dev/null 2>&1
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> > > However after my last weekly upgrade, this test fails even when
> > > --daemon is supported.  Please provide a way to test for --daemon
> > > support that will fail immediately on Emacs 21 and 22 (rather than
> > > just launching an ordinary Emacs), and will succeed immediately when
> > > --daemon is supported.
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> > How about "emacs --help | grep -q -e --daemon" ?
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> Thanks, that works.
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> I guess I didn't do that originally because I've a habit of not
> trusting documentation to be up to date :-)
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