From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs --daemon and M-x malloc-info Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:00:50 +0000 Message-ID: <770e3441229789ef1746@heytings.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36188"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Madhu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 26 14:02:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1lazwZ-0009Dg-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:02:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lazwY-0000Rn-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lazv5-0007wv-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:57668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lazv3-0006Vu-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:00:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1619438450; bh=0TQ8oAYQdZfz/oqx44kbzWj6/qtZhgaWtLyqg6UnA+E=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=YoRpLHc8TzolJ9ZGj9Xt6q+kriU4D8F4UErDzKkiURDo+v7YSdRYf+4+GUkswU+Gv HdoGT9nHKeIJZO0Hzg6Vs3/neV3kQ67pyEH2u8ZoD9FATzSg5weTYP8GEcOC3l9v+I SBKRLgaGS74dDzOX7m6JHIrVzgdECNhxyyXPlCX5GrFM56hzJLU4yPpftsE8kY9utU Xe+3FcfM0NOQumnZmpYPoWAxmThuqAhYup5J88oyPAq+rpsJp5i0/djG8MtG+bJyA6 NTqSJxLvSp2xzvDrGP9nkV7l3K7tzKFV997qhOgRezrAKf4sWYtAt9GaOrml9C0cN/ 8iRhfXq2acyug== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:268458 Archived-At: > > Fmalloc_info writes to stderr, which is closed in a daemonized emacs. > How best to handle this? A new logfile argument to emacs or is there > some simple (if ugly) hack? > On GNU/Linux systems, I would simply use "nohup emacs --fg-daemon &", which starts the daemon in foreground, detaches it from the terminal, and writes the output to a "nohup.out" file. Or "nohup emacs --fg-daemon &> emacs-daemon.log &" to redirect output to the file "emacs-daemon.log" instead of "nohup.out".