From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pretest
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:20:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8564da9anu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4560FDD4.2060103@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon\, 20 Nov 2006 01\:59\:00 +0100")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer the approach where emacsclient does not depend on Emacs
>> server to start.
>
> With a little twist your suggestion would be very similar to mine.
Uh, you twist my proposal and then complain about the consequences of
the twist...
> The main part of your suggestion as I see it is that emacsclient
> wait on an intermediate process. This has the advantage that emacs
> could communicate with it and tell emacsclient about errors.
Uh no, it doesn't. The whole point was that emacsproxy behaves just
like a blackbox that can be used instead of --alternate-editor.
> That is good. Something like this would have the benefits of both
> yours and my suggestion:
>
> 1) If emacsclient could not contact emacs server then it create the
> intermediate process. This then starts emacs and tells emacs to
> start emacs server with the required arguments.
My proposal was all about _not_ needing to start Emacs server in the
first place. Instead, Emacs is set up such that server-quit will
_not_ attempt talking to some emacsclient, but will rather kill the
emacsproxy it was started from.
> 2) Emacsclient then wait for the intermediate process to
> disappear. After that it checks for errors.
My proposal was all about emacsclient starting the "emacsproxy" like
an editor, waiting for it to finish, and then considering the file
edited.
> 3) If there are errors then it tries to connect to the server again.
It does not need to connect to the server "again" since it never
connected to the server anyhow.
> However it requires some changes to the emacs executable and I do
> not believe it should be implemented now.
Hm. It requires emacsproxy to call Emacs with something like
--eval '(setq server-proxy-process 54321)'
or probably something like
-f server-proxy-setup 54321
and server-quit to do something like
(signal-process server-proxy-process 'INT)
in an appropriate place.
That's not really "requiring changes to the Emacs executable" in my
book.
There is one utterly unrelated problem I see here: I don't see how
`signal-process' could work reliably on 32bit systems with 32bit
process ids.
Similarly, how would `process-id' work in that case?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 172+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-18 22:14 Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-11-18 22:58 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-18 23:32 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-11-19 0:53 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 0:56 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-19 1:01 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 1:56 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-19 2:04 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 3:29 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-19 8:45 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 10:03 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-19 10:18 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 11:44 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-19 14:13 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 14:24 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 14:42 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 14:45 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 15:58 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 19:13 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 19:27 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-20 1:15 ` Pretest Stefan Monnier
2006-11-19 17:54 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-19 19:14 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 19:50 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-19 20:48 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 21:33 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 21:33 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-19 21:49 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 22:04 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-19 22:06 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 22:44 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-19 23:02 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 23:31 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-20 0:59 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-20 1:20 ` David Kastrup [this message]
[not found] ` <45616414.2080802@student.lu.se>
2006-11-20 9:55 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-20 1:20 ` Pretest Stefan Monnier
2006-11-19 21:34 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-19 21:38 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-20 12:59 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-19 14:19 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-20 1:37 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-20 3:00 ` Pretest Stefan Monnier
2006-11-20 9:01 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-20 9:37 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-20 10:06 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-20 10:50 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-20 10:58 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-20 15:30 ` Pretest Stefan Monnier
2006-11-20 16:48 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-20 10:01 ` Pretest David Kastrup
2006-11-20 23:58 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-21 0:05 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-22 13:15 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-19 12:48 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-19 20:08 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-19 21:50 ` Pretest Reiner Steib
2006-11-20 12:59 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-19 19:59 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-19 18:52 Pretest Chong Yidong
2011-09-19 21:13 ` Pretest Drew Adams
2011-09-20 15:27 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2011-09-20 21:13 ` Pretest Andy Moreton
2011-09-20 21:33 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2011-09-21 1:27 ` Pretest Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21 2:11 ` Pretest Drew Adams
2011-09-19 22:29 ` Pretest Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-20 15:27 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 3:52 [david.reitter@gmail.com: file-remote-p malfunctions at site-start (file-name-handler-alist init)] Richard Stallman
2007-03-26 4:40 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 13:37 ` Michael Albinus
2007-03-26 14:16 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 14:44 ` Michael Albinus
2007-03-27 20:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-31 18:47 ` Michael Albinus
2007-03-31 19:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-31 20:02 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2007-03-18 4:28 Pretest Chong Yidong
2007-03-18 4:31 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-20 1:34 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2007-03-20 2:05 ` Pretest Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-20 4:40 ` Pretest dhruva
2007-03-20 12:07 ` Pretest AriT93
2007-03-20 12:36 ` Pretest dhruva
2007-03-20 13:14 ` Pretest AriT93
2007-03-21 22:47 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-09 17:46 Killing buffers with mouse Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-20 13:04 ` Pretest Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-07 20:13 Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-07 22:48 ` Pretest Miles Bader
2006-11-08 1:17 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-08 1:41 ` Pretest Miles Bader
2006-10-28 20:33 Pretest Mikko Huhtala
2006-10-27 17:59 Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-27 18:52 ` Pretest Paul Pogonyshev
2006-10-27 19:12 ` Pretest David Hansen
2006-10-28 11:31 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-15 21:35 ` Pretest Reiner Steib
2006-11-15 22:51 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-10-27 19:38 ` Pretest Kim F. Storm
2006-10-28 11:17 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-29 18:45 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-10-29 20:20 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-27 20:01 ` Pretest joakim
2006-10-27 21:11 ` Pretest Giorgos Keramidas
2006-10-28 2:30 ` Pretest Andrew M. Scott
2006-10-28 8:11 ` Pretest Yoni Rabkin Katzenell
2006-10-28 8:46 ` Pretest Andreas Roehler
2006-10-28 11:01 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-10-28 13:14 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-28 21:47 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-10-29 4:30 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-29 11:17 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-10-29 11:47 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 13:33 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-10-30 21:12 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-01 2:12 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-04 12:15 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-04 22:23 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-05 6:15 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-05 12:39 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-05 12:41 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-10-28 11:13 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-28 13:30 ` Pretest Benjamin Riefenstahl
2006-10-28 15:25 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-28 13:38 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-28 15:53 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-28 19:05 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-29 21:36 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-30 4:25 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 14:21 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-28 14:28 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-28 15:01 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-28 19:28 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-28 20:47 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-29 7:43 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-29 22:11 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-30 21:50 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 22:04 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-31 4:09 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 13:33 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-10-30 21:02 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-01 2:12 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-01 4:14 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-02 4:42 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-02 19:54 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-03 7:08 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-04 13:50 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-05 7:08 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
2006-10-28 15:08 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-28 20:52 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-28 21:11 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-28 22:09 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-28 22:30 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-29 23:40 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-30 0:33 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-30 14:12 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-30 19:57 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-30 20:18 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-30 20:34 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-30 22:18 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-30 23:00 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-11-01 2:12 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-02 14:10 ` Pretest Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-28 18:13 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-10-28 19:02 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-29 18:49 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-10-29 20:22 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 19:16 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-11-03 15:39 ` Pretest Drew Adams
2006-11-03 19:22 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-03 19:51 ` Pretest Lennart Borgman
2006-11-03 20:02 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-03 20:48 ` Pretest Nick Roberts
2006-11-04 15:26 ` Pretest Richard Stallman
2006-10-30 20:04 ` Pretest Paul Jarc
2006-10-30 23:13 ` Pretest Chong Yidong
2006-10-31 9:44 ` Pretest Jim Thompson
2006-11-05 23:30 ` Pretest Bill Wohler
2006-11-06 0:01 ` Pretest Jason Rumney
2006-11-06 4:22 ` Pretest Eli Zaretskii
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