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Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control? |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 06:54:39 -0800 (PST) |
Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >> Consider the following scenario:
> >> - emacs --daemon is running in the background without any open frame
> >> - server-start is also called in another Emacs process
>
> >> Now there is no more way to connect to the detached Emacs. (Or am I
> >> missing something?)
>
> >> Maybe it would be feasible to add a recovery mechanism for such a
> >> case, like binding [sigusr1] to server-start?
>
> > That would be easy to do, indeed. 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.
>
> Or both? The server process or socket could be non-functional for other
> reasons.
Like a silly cron job removing the socket from /tmp. I've had a
[sigusr2] binding to server-start in my .emacs for a long time for
exactly that reason. It has been very useful quite a few times.
- Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Ulrich Mueller, 2008/11/04
- Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/05
- Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/06
- Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/06
- Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/06
- Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/06
- Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/07
Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?, Ulrich Mueller, 2008/11/07