From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: error in server-running-p on M$ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:58:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18728.4982.765983.511070@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227413094 13024 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2008 04:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 05:05:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L46Ds-0006SL-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:05:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L46Cj-0002Vi-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L46Bw-00027E-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L46Bu-00026b-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43386 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L46Bu-00026Y-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:61560 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4674-0002Ke-7c; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:58:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuoEAChjKEnO+J+z/2dsb2JhbACBbc4+gnyBHA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,652,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="30190311" Original-Received: from 206-248-159-179.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.159.179]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 22 Nov 2008 22:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3FBB68101; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:58:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <18728.4982.765983.511070@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:13:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105991 Archived-At: > Shouldn't it try to actually connect to the socket (in the > server-use-tcp case), to find out if the server is functional? > That would also be consistent with the behaviour for local sockets. Yes, I think so. It's the whole point of restricting it to 127.0.0.1 (so that trying to connect to it doesn't risk suffering a timeout). Stefan