Re: [PATCH 4/9] Fix emacsclient to work with cygw32

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:16:47 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 8/7/2012 11:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:19:27 -0700
> >> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> >>
> >> @@ -188,9 +192,7 @@ struct option longopts[] =
> >>    { "socket-name",	required_argument, NULL, 's' },
> >>  #endif
> >>    { "server-file",	required_argument, NULL, 'f' },
> >> -#ifndef WINDOWSNT
> >>    { "display",	required_argument, NULL, 'd' },
> >> -#endif
> >>    { "parent-id", required_argument, NULL, 'p' },
> >>    { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
> >>  };
> > 
> > How will the -d switch react in the native Windows build of
> > emacsclient?
> > 
> 
> NT-native emacsclient would bail out and die.

So then this change needs to be only for Cygwin.

> Hrm: maybe it'd be better to
> retain the functionality? But what would we do with DISPLAY information there?
> It'd be nice if any emacsclient could work with any emacs, but I don't think
> we're there yet.

That's right, we are not.  That's a separate project.