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[patch] add support for emacs daemon on Windows

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From: Mark Laws <mdl <at> 60hz.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 19688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19688: [patch] add support for emacs daemon on Windows
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:40:27 +0900

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org> wrote:
> Inheriting an anonymous event feels a bit cleaner to me; you can provide
> the HANDLE value in an environment variable or a command line parameter.
> Failing that, the event name should at least contain "emacs" somewhere
> so as to not confuse people browsing named object directories.

It may seem cleaner in that the event doesn't leak into a shared
namespace, but it requires significantly more code. Other handles may
also get unnecessarily inherited as a result, and it would require yet
more code to ensure they don't--it's difficult to ensure that it's
doing exactly what you want. The named event method is much, much
simpler. See for yourself; I've attached the patch written three ways:
a named event (simple), an inherited event passed through the
environment (a bit complicated), and an inherited event passed via the
command line (pretty heinous).

Also, I added multiple daemon support--after another look at the code,
I saw no reason to not include it, though there's still one difference
between the Windows and UNIX implementations: emacsclient can't
provide a name to be used for the daemon when it's starting a new
Emacs (but a user could provide one if they used emacs --daemon=foo).

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[emacs-windows-daemon-inheritev.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

[emacs-windows-daemon-inheritev-cmdline.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

[emacs-windows-daemon-namedev.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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