GNU bug report logs - #4944
23.1.50; starting a server without forking a daemon

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kenny Stuart <kstuart <at> hotmail.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:55:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Merged with 2677

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 4944 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Kenny Stuart <kstuart <at> hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: 4944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4944: 23.1.50; starting a server without forking a daemon
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:25:28 -0800 (PST)
Kenny Stuart <kstuart <at> hotmail.co.uk> writes:

  > Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
  > usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
  > 
  > Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org mailing list.
  > 
  > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
  > and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
  > a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':
  > 
  > This is a feature request to add the facility to start an emacs server
  > using a command-line option that runs as a foreground process instead
  > of forking a daemon and exiting.
  > 
  > Motivation:
  > 
  > Forking a daemon then exiting the main process is incompatible with
  > systems that manage processes as services, such as launchd on OS X,
  > therefore it is not possible to create an effective launchd service
  > using emacs in daemon mode.
  > 
  > Possible Solution:
  > 
  > For review I have included a patch that adds a --server command line
  > option that does what the --daemon option does, except it runs the
  > server in the foreground process rather than forking a daemon and
  > exiting.

How is this different from:

emacs -f server-start 

?

Also note that you do not have to start the daemon explicitly, if you use

emacsclient -a "" 

it will start an emacs daemon if one is not already running.




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