Re: [PATCH] emacs: Use socket instead of port.

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

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On 12.12.2015 09:50, Alex Kost wrote:
> Currently, if you try to run a repl command (for example, "M-x 
> guix-installed-packages") in a second Emacs instance, you'll get
> an unfriendly error.  That's because `guix-default-port' is busy
> already (by another Guix REPL), so you either have to change it
> manually or use (setq guix-use-guile-server nil).  So with the
> attached patch, a socket file with a generated name will be used
> instead of a port, which allows you to run as many Emacs instances
> with Guix REPLs as you want.
> 
> Many thanks to Florian for the great idea!
> 
> There is one small thing though: Guile does not remove socket file
> after exiting from "guile --listen=/tmp/foo" so these dead sockets
> will stay in /tmp dir.  As there is no `comint-exit-hook' or alike,
> I don't see how a socket file can be removed after the REPL is
> killed.
> 

Hi,

maybe wrap it into an mktemp call? Sorry, I have to run for a meeting
now, but isn't there some semantics to mktemp, that the file
"disappears" directly, but the fd is kept open? Maybe a little bash
wrapper or maybe some elisp magic do the job?

Regards,
Flo

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