gnuserve switches to the old Emacs window but does not open the file

[Bernhard Koenig]

I'm using a Windows machine with Emacs 22.0.50.1.

I also installed the gnuserve package and it seems to be correctly installed,

my .emacs contains

 

(require 'gnuserv)
(setq gnuserv-frame (car (frame-list)))
(gnuserv-start)

 

(defadvice server-find-file (around ignore-percent-one (file) activate)
  (if (or (not (string= "%1" (file-name-nondirectory file)))
          (file-exists-p file))
    ad-do-it))

 

At times, when I use the command "gnuclientw -F filename.txt" this will only

switch to the old emacs window but NOT open the file "filename.txt". Once

this happened, I cannot pass any more files to this old window but have to

close it. Closing then produces a beep on my machine, while usually emacs does not

beep when exiting. In the message box, the line "Server subprocess exited"

appears sometimes, which seems to be related to this problem.

 

The problem shows up sometimes but not all the times, I couldn't quite

figure out when it does and when not. E.g. if I click two files with gnuclientw

in a very short interval, then it usually works. The longer the interval, the more

likely the problem occurs.