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Re: How to run server-start only if not already running?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: How to run server-start only if not already running?
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:49:31 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

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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