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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master b4f504a0ea: Load desktop without prompting if process is dead
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:28:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rsyf3vl.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o81vcslp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:50:26 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This assumes that command-line-args resolves symlinks in the Emacs
> program's name?  Or that the 'comm' attribute in process-attributes
> does NOT resolve symlinks?  Because otherwise the above will cause
> false negatives.

It's a heuristic -- I don't think there's any real way to reliably find
other running Emacs processes.  They could be called anything.  But
it'll work in the default case, which is what matters here, I think.

> And on Windows, there's the issue of the ".exe"
> extension, which could be in one, but not the other, I think?

Yes, perhaps that should be adjusted.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-25 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-24 14:50 master b4f504a0ea: Load desktop without prompting if process is dead Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-25 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-03-26  7:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-26 16:40     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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