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bug#60592: 30.0.50; emacsclient: exit with a different code when the req
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Sean Whitton |
Subject: |
bug#60592: 30.0.50; emacsclient: exit with a different code when the request times out |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:57:18 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hello,
On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 09:37AM +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:47:49 -0700
>>
>> When calling 'emacsclient --timeout N --eval' from scripts, it would be
>> nice if you could determine for sure when a failure was just due to a
>> timeout, rather than, say, a Lisp exception.
>>
>> inotifywait(1) exits with code 2 to indicate a timeout.
>> emacsclient could do the same.
>
> It would be more portable to have the exception handler send a special
> message to emacsclient, so that it would know the reason without
> guessing.
I think this is wholly complimentary to what I'm suggesting, right?
--
Sean Whitton