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

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 03:15, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Currently it's not used (except in some people's .emacs).  The intended
> use is in start-server to try and prevent hijacking the socket of
> a pre-existing server.  So it's probably not less important for TCP where
> two servers of the same name can actually co-exist on different ports.

But, you cannot have two TCP servers co-existing with the same name on
the same computer unless you customize `server-auth-dir' with
different values in each instance.

At that point, how do you direct `server-running-p' to decide what
director(y|ies) to look for?

  Juanma