From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#61658: 30.0.50; server-eval-at might handle unreadable results better Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:09:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83zg98tgb7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r0uk1eyp.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9067"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 61658@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sean Whitton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 20 18:09:22 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9fG-000264-5p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:09:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9ey-0008AK-SU; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:09:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9ex-0008A5-01 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9ew-0003V9-N2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9ew-0005ZU-94 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:09:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:09:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 61658 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 61658-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B61658.167691294021405 (code B ref 61658); Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:09:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 61658) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Feb 2023 17:09:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53382 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9eu-0005ZB-7r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:09:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58074) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9es-0005Yv-Ba for 61658@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:08:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9em-0003TG-GC; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:08:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=TA3E2/HmuggptDh3DtbHDs/M30EWHFgkJyQHxZt/Q6Y=; b=jnybnEHUqWrW MJlhK4B7gLwh/ghs1jNo71GOGX317ivaUDeI1h6dEXSwUiPOA6aWUDdVwzR05UtrZCTfc5o6SYiru qyTzWpUas8kTi6FCKjj4xQ36figq3wy228mJ7sYpx8RWigETV6r8WvDGhYSgOJFG2y9o2s+lWQRLY f9jZwvwoVgmyWghV/6WmrSR/QOm7D98b3UA8AwyGT6MJbCLFedPpmh/YFgOHrhG7gaKffITLXD7OT sTmbEvI63XQBLRMd6+MPTrcJdX0jg6A6JLgsqYQVZ22cwK9rMUmVvB/Gcy7Kh3n984nKeSL/zMPBs D6CFXG2XLcv4MucGdA6YLA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pU9el-0004QP-Vy; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:08:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r0uk1eyp.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:25:34 -0700) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:256206 Archived-At: > From: Sean Whitton > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:25:34 -0700 > > I use server-eval-at to call a function, in another daemon, which > returns a buffer. So, server-eval-at tries (read "#") > which of course fails, and indeed signals an error. > > I wonder if server-eval-at should return a special value to indicate > that the remote computation returned something that is not readably > printable? Or signal a particular error, which the caller might catch? Why can't you make that function return something more sensible? Or even just nil?