From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1540: emacsclient -t fails under su Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:51:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200812112119.mBBLJwj7001473@mothra.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 1540@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229040325 31473 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 00:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1540@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 01:06:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LAvXJ-0004KL-5J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:05:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAvW6-00080M-Fz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAvW2-00080H-DR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAvW1-0007zk-51 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39159 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAvW0-0007zb-Vn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:49787) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAvW0-0007nr-6J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mBC04IrL009611; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:04:18 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id mBC005Dq008455; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:00:05 -0800 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1540 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1540-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1540.12290395536842 (code B ref 1540); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:05 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 18; hammy, 65; neutral, 61; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--emacs, 0.000-+--H*M:fsf, 0.000-+--H*UA:Emacs, 0.000-+--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-+--H*MI:fsf Original-Received: (at 1540) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 11 Dec 2008 23:52:33 +0000 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mBBNqUqH006836 for <1540@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:52:32 -0800 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LAvJw-0005Kk-Ck; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:51:52 -0500 X-Spook: Telex Fortezza Ceridian Audiotel South Africa president X-Ran: o:6-riU(plF,wKHBZ[lU}|-j3?mr/bip`56.)g14*z|^.dG<$U:MnYgB@i-Kj3f9}%R\fB X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04:22 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:23214 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Not sure what to do. The quick way out would be for emacsclient to > check if the tty is writable, and refuse to try to connect in case it is > not. But is that TRTD? Anything that stops the crash has to be an improvement. I know nothing about how this all works, but my naive expectation was that since emacs -nw works, emacsclient -t should too. But if that's not possible, fine. If it's possible but difficult, just stopping the crash and leaving the rest open as a wishlist is fine too.