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emacsclient -t fails under su

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Message #25 received at 1540 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1540 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1540: emacsclient -t fails under su
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:11:27 +0100

Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>   > I know nothing about how this all works, but my naive expectation was
>   > that since emacs -nw works, emacsclient -t should too. But if that's
>   > not possible, fine. If it's possible but difficult, just stopping the
>   > crash and leaving the rest open as a wishlist is fine too.
>
> Not sure about the underlying problem. 

Doing it right would require passing a file descriptor instead of the
terminal name from emacsclient to emacs.

Andreas.

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