GNU bug report logs - #16262
24.3.50; Mac OSX emacs --daemon reports "server did not start correctly"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Phillip Dixon <phil <at> dixon.gen.nz>

Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 16262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Phillip Dixon <phil <at> dixon.gen.nz>
Cc: 16262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.3.50; Mac OSX emacs --daemon reports "server did not start
 correctly"
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:00:18 -0800

Thanks for the bug report.  Your fix has a small race condition,
in that some other thread could fork and exec while the pipe's close-on-exec
flag is clear.  I installed a different fix as trunk bzr 115799, which
should avoid that race condition.  Please give it a try when you have the chance.
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