Re: Lost socket for detached Emacs, how to regain control?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Consider the following scenario:
>   - emacs --daemon is running in the background without any open frame
>   - server-start is also called in another Emacs process

> Now there is no more way to connect to the detached Emacs. (Or am I
> missing something?)

> Maybe it would be feasible to add a recovery mechanism for such a
> case, like binding [sigusr1] to server-start?

That would be easy to do, indeed.  Another option is for server-start to
try and detect that there's already an active socket (using
server-running-p) and refuse to start.


        Stefan