Re: [PATCH] lisp/server.el: Introduction of server-auth-key variable

[Juanma Barranquero]

2011/5/1 Michal Nazarewicz <address@hidden>:

> My reading of searver.el is that anything other then -auth is consider
> a failed authentication.

Yes, sorry, my mistake.

> How about adding additional information to the server file which would
> just be ignored by old clients but new client would read it and use the
> new authentication.  My reading of emacsclient.c is that it ignores
> anything after reading the key.

That's a good idea.

> Actually, now that I look at it, it seems that the patch needs some more
> works since both server and client have some assumption about the key
> (eg. client reads exactly 64 bytes).  I'll take care of it on Monday.

Which patch, yours adding server-auth-key you mean?

    Juanma