Re: y-or-n-p and emacs --daemon

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

>>>>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> Ideally, either the question comes before detaching and it should then
>> behave as it does in -batch,
>
> I think that this is unaccaptable. A daemon shouldn't be interactive
> before detaching. Besides, there might not be any terminal associated
> with stdin, so this doesn't solve the problem for this case.
>
> Can't y-or-n-p signal an error if it's called before detaching?

Note:
y-or-n-p is not the only case of interactivity that can happen when
starting daemon:
if desktop save buffer that has been opened as /su:... or /sudo 
it will prompt for password and will hang until user kill process.
 
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