From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Laws <mdl@60hz.org>
Cc: 19688@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19688: [patch] add support for emacs daemon on Windows
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:28:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wq3kwrjx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADemMPO7sto+FjZ21TCj6+ntDEn+ncCd6gnMtp5cOKsMb01L2A@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:16:46 +0900
> From: Mark Laws <mdl@60hz.org>
> Cc: 19688@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Unix, emacsclient forks and execs (#1) emacs --daemon, which in
> turn execs (#2) itself. emacsclient waits on #1, which is told when to
> quit via the pipe between #1 and #2, and when it quits, we know that
> the daemon must be ready.
>
> > My understanding is that your Windows variant of the above is to wait
> > on an event that is signaled by Emacs when it starts in daemon mode.
> > My question is: can we use something similar to Unix here, like
> > 'WaitForInputIdle'? After all, the above call to 'waitpid' just tells
> > us the daemon process is past its initialization stage, as far as the
> > OS is concerned, which isn't too fine-grained. Perhaps even
> > repeatedly calling 'GetExitCodeProcess' until it returns STILL_ACTIVE
> > for the first time would be a faithful enough emulation of what
> > 'waitpid' does here?
>
> On Windows, the Emacs process created by emacsclient initializes
> daemon mode itself, so neither of those would give us a way of knowing
> that the daemon has actually been initialized. That's why we have to
> use an event on Windows.
I don't see why 'WaitForInputIdle' wouldn't work. Can you explain?
AFAIU, it waits until the process is idle, which means it did all the
initialization and is ready for accepting connections. Am I missing
something?
> > P.S. What's up with your copyright assignment? I still don't see it
> > on file.
>
> Sorry, I sent it to copyright-clerk@fsf.org (since that's where it
> came from) instead of assign@gnu.org. I sent it to the latter just
> now.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-25 19:18 bug#19688: [patch] add support for emacs daemon on Windows Mark Laws
2015-01-25 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CADemMPM+Tix-6FJ+CO3HA8y7Cq6AV0kv_e6_qn7BaSw1QMOwTQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-26 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-26 7:40 ` Mark Laws
2015-01-26 11:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-27 8:40 ` Mark Laws
2015-01-30 0:36 ` Mark Laws
2015-01-30 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-13 0:07 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-13 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 12:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 13:16 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-02-14 13:37 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 16:34 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 16:57 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 17:30 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 17:57 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 19:21 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-14 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 21:15 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-19 16:31 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-19 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-21 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-21 19:30 ` Mark Laws
2015-02-27 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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