From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: use emacsclient(1) for Emacs tests
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:17:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110628041742.GC4120@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aad2zjuz.fsf@gmail.com>
Quoth Dmitry Kurochkin on Jun 28 at 7:59 am:
> I am sure that would work, but I do not like the complexity. How about
> getting back to standard emacsclient and running a watchdog in the
> emacs? Like:
>
> (defun orphan-watchdog (pid)
> "Periodically check that the process with id PID is still
> running, quit if it terminated."
> (if (not (process-attributes pid))
> (kill-emacs)
> (run-at-time "1 min" nil orphan-watchdog pid)))
>
> This function (or my other changes) do not work (by yet unknown reason
> :)), but you get the idea.
I would consider this more complex than a few file descriptors. ]:--8)
Though, I'm automatically distrustful of anything that relies on
polling (why poll when you can be notified instantly?).
It also has some problems. For example, PID's are easily reused, so
if another process happens to take up that PID, the emacs could still
hang around for a long time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-26 23:52 [PATCH 1/5] test: do not set `message-signature' in test_emacs Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-26 23:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] test: cleanup test_emacs Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-26 23:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] test: wrap and indent test_emacs calls Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-26 23:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] test: save buffer content to file instead of printing it in Emacs tests Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-26 23:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] test: remove some sed(1) calls " Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-27 3:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] test: use emacs_deliver_message in Emacs SMTP send test Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-27 3:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] test: use emacsclient(1) for Emacs tests Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-27 20:02 ` Austin Clements
2011-06-27 20:22 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-27 20:32 ` Austin Clements
2011-06-28 1:03 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-28 3:49 ` Austin Clements
2011-06-28 3:59 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-28 4:17 ` Austin Clements [this message]
2011-06-28 4:44 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-28 16:22 ` Austin Clements
2011-06-28 16:42 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-28 20:10 ` Carl Worth
2011-06-28 20:47 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-28 22:41 ` Carl Worth
2011-06-28 20:58 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-06-28 22:42 ` Carl Worth
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