From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 60592@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60592: 30.0.50; emacsclient: exit with a different code when the request times out
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:37:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qo8w1ug.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmbsmcxm.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:47:49 -0700)
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:47:49 -0700
>
> When calling 'emacsclient --timeout N --eval' from scripts, it would be
> nice if you could determine for sure when a failure was just due to a
> timeout, rather than, say, a Lisp exception.
>
> inotifywait(1) exits with code 2 to indicate a timeout.
> emacsclient could do the same.
It would be more portable to have the exception handler send a special
message to emacsclient, so that it would know the reason without
guessing.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-06 5:47 bug#60592: 30.0.50; emacsclient: exit with a different code when the request times out Sean Whitton
2023-01-06 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-01-06 17:57 ` Sean Whitton
2023-01-06 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-06 19:03 ` Sean Whitton
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