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30.0.50; emacs --fg-daemon fails silently if server-start fails

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 68799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#68799: 30.0.50; emacs --fg-daemon fails silently if server-start fails
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:23:47 +0200

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Cc: 68799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  jasonr <at> gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:20:21 -0500
> 
> To be clear, the patch I posted which checks DAEMON_RUNNING *does* solve
> that.
> 
> $ ./src/emacs -Q --fg-daemon=/tmp/foo
> Starting Emacs daemon.
> ‘/tmp’ is not a safe directory because it is not owned by you (owner = root (0))
> $ 
> 
> (which previously would have hung)
> 
> The issue now is solely that the printed error message is maybe not
> informative enough.
> 
> So how about the following diff, which changes the output to:
> 
> $ ./src/emacs -Q --fg-daemon=/tmp/foo
> Starting Emacs daemon.
> Unable to start daemon: ‘/tmp’ is not a safe directory because it is not owned by you (owner = root (0))

That's an improvement, but maybe it will be even better if you append
"; exiting" at the end of the message?

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