Subject: bug#1474: 23.0.60; desktop.el don't check if pid in his lock file is always in use

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:30:26 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> (Gentoo provide an init script to start emacs --daemon as service with openrc)
>
> That sounds "brain-dead" since Emacs is not useful to the system, only
> to its users.

The init script is started in a by user process with a symlink, in the
same manner as net.eth1 is a symlink of net.lo.
So the init script is started as /etc/init.d/emacs.<USER> and the
process is started as <USER>.
That's a concept, it's interesting, and can interest other users.
-- 
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France