Re: emacsclient not working on RHEL 6.8 (non-sudo) [master branch]

[Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

These issues go away if I rebuild emacs using the 9-day old commit
f3328f995ee316cffa1a86117e6da2ba299d2c90 [1], before any of the
changes happened to emacsclient.c.

[1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f3328f995ee316cffa1a86117e6da2ba299d2c90

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Kaushal Modi

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:36 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some more information ..
>
> Earlier "emacsclient -c&" used to work. Now doing that auto-suspends that process and on doing fg, I get "broken pipe".
>
> But "emacsclient -c" seems to be working (without that &). But then I need to block a new terminal for each new emacsclient invocation (with or without -c) ..
>
> Also, I fixed a regression in one of the 3rd party Elisp packages that got updated in last month.
>
> After that, instead of "broken pipe" error, I now see "*ERROR*: Assertion failed: (eq (match-end 0) (length string))"
>
> That error is originating from servel.el:
>
> =====
>   (condition-case err
>       (progn
> (server-add-client proc)
> ;; Send our pid
> (server-send-string proc (concat "-emacs-pid "
> (number-to-string (emacs-pid)) "\n"))
> (if (not (string-match "\n" string))
>             ;; Save for later any partial line that remains.
>             (when (> (length string) 0)
>               (process-put proc 'previous-string string))
>
>           ;; In earlier versions of server.el (where we used an `emacsserver'
>           ;; process), there could be multiple lines.  Nowadays this is not
>           ;; supported any more.
>           (cl-assert (eq (match-end 0) (length string)))
> =====
>
> I get that assertion error if I do "emacsclient -c&". But if I do just "emacsclient -c", a new Emacsclient frame launches fine.