Re: Emacs making questions while starting in daemon mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> Dan Nicolaescu skrev 2010-07-06 19.29:
>>
>> That happens already:
>>
>> $ cat .emacs
>> (yes-or-no-p "Question?")
>> $ emacs --daemon<  /dev/null
>>   emacs --daemon<  /dev/null
>> ("emacs")
>> Question?(yes or no) Warning (initialization): An error occurred while 
>> loading `/home/dann/.emacs':
>>
>> error: Error reading from stdin
>>
>> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
>> cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
>> the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
>> Starting Emacs daemon.
>>
>> I suspect that the tool he uses to start emacs provides some bogus
>> stdin and emacs dutifully waits for input from there.
>
> So emacs --daemon should behave more like a "proper" daemon,
> i.e. close stdin/out/err and setsid and the whole works?

It does that, but only after processing .emacs.
The original implementation was closing all descriptors from the
start, it was changed to the current one after some discussion on the list.