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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rrt@sc3d.org
Subject: Re: How to run server-start only if not already running?
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:49:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je3avhukwk.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IpzDI-0007x0-6L@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 07 Nov 2007 23\:41\:56 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     This is for compatibility with older versions of server.el, which didn't
>     do it by itself.
>
> That's good.  Would you like to write a patch for the trunk's server.el
> to provide a feature more or less like this?

The problem is that it needs to find out whether another process is
using the socket, which is not quite a portable thing to do.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 21:41 How to run server-start only if not already running? Reuben Thomas
2007-11-06 23:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-06 23:38   ` Reuben Thomas
2007-11-06 23:56     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-07  0:00       ` Reuben Thomas
2007-11-06 23:46   ` Reuben Thomas
2007-11-07  7:56   ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07  9:42     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08  4:41       ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-08  9:49         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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