From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in server-start Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:55:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <200812161455.mBGEtBqV003868@mothra.ics.uci.edu> References: <18758.7352.558182.931572@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18758.14760.572830.277734@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200812151724.mBFHOSnS029425@mothra.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229439345 20230 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2008 14:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 15:56:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCbLq-0007cm-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:56:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCbKe-0006jG-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCbKY-0006iS-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCbKU-0006hG-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41633 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCbKU-0006h9-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.120]:58643) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCbKU-0005g4-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id mBGEtDJ4013731; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:55:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by mothra.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id mBGEtBqV003868; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:55:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:12:05 -0500") Original-Lines: 13 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: mBGEtDJ4013731 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106963 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > We could install something by default to restart the server when > > receiving an USR1 or USR2 signal. > > We could, but it wouldn't change much to the underlying problem: the > user still needs to somehow figure out (or at least suspect) that > there's a dormant server, then use `ps' to find the PID. Having the binding gives you one way to handle the server instead of none. Sometimes the "server" socket gets deleted by an overzealous /tmp cleaner cron job leaving you with no way to control the server...