GNU bug report logs - #1058
23.0.60; emacs --daemon should not return until socket is ready

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: SRS0+wOMF+22+gmail.com=trentbuck <at> internode.on.net

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1058 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rfrancoise <at> debian.org
Subject: bug#1058: 23.0.60; emacs --daemon should not return until socket is ready
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:43:24 +1000

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:51:10AM -0700, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> From this transcript, you can see that after starting 'emacs
>> --daemon', it takes five seconds before the socket is actually
>> available for emacsclient to talk to it.
>>
>>   $ emacs --daemon; while ! ls /tmp/emacs1187/; do sleep 1; done
>
> Just curious, what do you get if you do:
>
> emacs -Q --daemon; while ! ls /tmp/emacs1187/; do sleep 1; done

I get the same problem.  Running c++ elsewhere and starting Emacs
nicely, I managed to get the delay up to 17 seconds.

$ nice -n 19 emacs -Q --daemon; until ls /tmp/emacs1187/; do sleep 1; done
ls: cannot access /tmp/emacs1187/: No such file or directory
[repeats 16 times]
server
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