Re: error in server-running-p on M$

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 04:56, dhruva <address@hidden> wrote:

> How about storing the machine IP address and the port in the file for
> each successful emacs server instance. The file name itself can be
> machine IP DOT port. This will handle the case of NFS mounted home
> folders.

I don't understand. What do you gain with this? How does emacsclient
know with which instance must connect?

> Another option, how about having a user defined fixed port for running
> emacs server. This might lead to a DOS attack but the port is defined
> by the user and hence not something that can be guessed easily.

That was explicitly rejected while designing the TCP support for
emacsclient/server.

  Juanma