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27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket

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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 33847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33847: 27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:29:39 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Instead, I suggest unsetting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if you wish to start an
> Emacs client or server that is independent of your session and are on
> a host that is secured well enough so that the security issues are of
> no concern. Alternatively, you can use --socket-name when starting
> emacsclient.

IMHO that's not an acceptable solution. emacsclient should just work in
the default configuration, without requiring the user to jump through
hoops, and an Emacs daemon should persist between sessions (otherwise
"daemon" would be a misnomer). Or is that use case really so uncommon?

Also, if there is a security problem, how would it disappear by moving
the socket to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR? Note that other tools like "screen" also
place their sockets in a subdir of /tmp.

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