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Re: error in server-running-p on M$
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: error in server-running-p on M$ |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:29:31 +0100 |
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> 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.
> The idea is to run a simple test, that does not have the risk of
> incurring in a timeout.
This doesn't catch all cases. For example, the server process could be
running on a remote machine, with the port tunnelled over ssh.
> Also, if the server authentication file says that Emacs process PID is
> using port P, and there's really an Emacs of pid PID but it is no
> longer answering to requests on port P, that is PID's problem, not the
> current instance's.
I think that the false positives are not the problem, but the false
negatives (i.e. port is in use, but server-running-p returns nil) are.
Ulrich
- error in server-running-p on M$, dhruva, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Ulrich Mueller, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$,
Ulrich Mueller <=
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Ulrich Mueller, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Ulrich Mueller, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, dhruva, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, dhruva, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/22
- Re: error in server-running-p on M$, dhruva, 2008/11/22