Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs/lib-src emacsclient.c ChangeLog

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

  > "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > >> Not only is my taste not to add unneeded #defines, but the main
  > >> reason is that there's other code in src that deals with the daemon
  > >> that uses just fine #ifdef WINDOWSNT.  Consistency in all directories
  > >> is important.
  > >
  > > That other code should also use EMACS_DAEMON or similar.
  > 
  > That depends on the specifics of the situation.  Could either you or Dan
  > point out the places in src that use WINDOWSNT to handle daemon mode, to
  > give us more information to work with?

emacs.c: main uses DOS_NT (which is WINDOWSNT || MSDOS)
emacclient.c is not used in DOS

  > Another thing to consider: does the Emacs server and daemon work on
  > Nextstep?

Adrian has a patch to make it working on Cocoa (it's only needed because
the daemon does a fork() and continues executing in the child, and the
Cocoa libraries don't work in such a situation).  From what I
understood, the patch would no be needed on GNUStep.