Subject: bug#16599: src/temacs --daemon fails

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:51:46 +0200

> From: Alex Bennée <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <[email-masked]>, Eli Zaretskii
>  <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:40:35 +0000
> 
> Why did the syms_of_emacs() function feel the need to initialise daemon_pipe?

Because in a dumped Emacs, daemon_pipe might hold a stale value from
before the dumping.

Does the patch below solve this problem?

=== modified file 'src/emacs.c'
--- src/emacs.c	2014-01-20 19:44:56 +0000
+++ src/emacs.c	2014-02-17 15:48:44 +0000
@@ -2550,5 +2550,6 @@ libraries; only those already known by E
 #endif
 
   /* Make sure IS_DAEMON starts up as false.  */
-  daemon_pipe[1] = 0;
+  if (initialized)
+    daemon_pipe[1] = 0;
 }