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bug#4944: 23.1.50; starting a server without forking a daemon
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#4944: 23.1.50; starting a server without forking a daemon |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:25:28 -0800 (PST) |
Kenny Stuart <kstuart@hotmail.co.uk> writes:
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
> Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing
list.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give
> a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':
>
> This is a feature request to add the facility to start an emacs server
> using a command-line option that runs as a foreground process instead
> of forking a daemon and exiting.
>
> Motivation:
>
> Forking a daemon then exiting the main process is incompatible with
> systems that manage processes as services, such as launchd on OS X,
> therefore it is not possible to create an effective launchd service
> using emacs in daemon mode.
>
> Possible Solution:
>
> For review I have included a patch that adds a --server command line
> option that does what the --daemon option does, except it runs the
> server in the foreground process rather than forking a daemon and
> exiting.
How is this different from:
emacs -f server-start
?
Also note that you do not have to start the daemon explicitly, if you use
emacsclient -a ""
it will start an emacs daemon if one is not already running.