Re: emacs daemon on win32?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:27:47 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 21:22, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Then let me ask you: what _is_, in your opinion, the raison d'etre of
> > the daemon mode?
> 
> Same that in a Windows service: the system is responsible of starting,
> stopping and maintaining the process alive (and dependency
> relationships between services).

Unless Emacs is a service and can be started as such, you cannot do
this on Windows (AFAIK) without logging in as one of the users defined
on the particular machine.

Someone else wrote in this thread what I think is the main goal of the
daemon mode: be detached from the process group and so don't get
killed when the user logs out.  And I think this is impossible on
Windows for a normal (non-service) process.