From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44472: 27.1; emacsclient 27.1 unable to properly start & connect to emacs server via: emacsclient -a '' -c Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:10:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6vv9ik9.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13486"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 44472@debbugs.gnu.org To: Al G Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 06:11:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1m-0003Q1-Gm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:11:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1l-0005w7-CZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1e-0005vz-LA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1e-0000cO-9j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1e-0001O3-5c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:11:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 05:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44472 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 44472-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44472.16046394405298 (code B ref 44472); Fri, 06 Nov 2020 05:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44472) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Nov 2020 05:10:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54702 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1I-0001NO-5t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:10:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40470) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1G-0001NA-2e for 44472@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:10:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kau1A-0000Mx-92; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:10:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3829 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kau19-0004FP-Om; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:10:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Al G on Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:06:52 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:192766 Archived-At: > From: Al G > Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:06:52 -0500 > > > ============================================================================= > [Start of bug report] > In emacs 27.1, the command: > emacsclient -a '' -c & > > Doesn't anymore start emacs as a daemon server. Not on Cygwin, it seems. This appears to be a Cygwin-specific problem. > This is critical, because many people use emacsclient in this manner > to optionally start the server if it doesn't exist, and simply > connect to it if it's already running. Please fix this, or at least > backout the changes that broke emacsclient. I believe this was recently fixed for the upcoming Emacs 27.2. If you can build the latest emacs-27 branch of the Emacs Git repository, I think you will see that the problem is gone.