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29.4; Emacs daemon on Windows OS

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Message #25 received at 72345-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: zxnotdead <at> gmail.com
Cc: 72345-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, code <at> sebasmonia.com
Subject: Re: bug#72345: 29.4; Emacs daemon on Windows OS
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:20:38 +0300

> Cc: 72345 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, code <at> sebasmonia.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:12:58 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Constantin Kulikov <zxnotdead <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:28:08 +0300
> > 
> > I found the root of the problem. The horrors I described in starting post happens only if you specify custom
> > command line parameters in emacs --daemon command, like:
> > 
> > ```
> > # emacs.exe --daemon -myparam test
> > ```
> > 
> > Which can be used in a config like:
> > 
> > ```
> > (let ((myparamcons (member "-myparam" command-line-args)))
> >     (setq myparam (cadr myparamcons)))
> > ```
> > 
> > If you specify such a command line argument then the server file is not created by default and if you manually
> > (server-start) from your config then emacs read-* functions are trying to read input from the terminal. But
> > interestingly that if you press C-x C-c in emacsclient frame -- then emacs request to save modified files are
> > handled properly in GUI frame.
> > 
> > So the "solution" is not to specify any custom command line arguments.
> > I consider it as a bug.
> 
> I can reproduce this in Emacs 29, but not on the current emacs-30
> release branch, which will eventually become Emacs 30.1.  Emacs 30
> refuses to start in this case:
> 
>   d:\>emacs --daemon -Q -myparam test
>   Starting Emacs daemon.
>   Unknown option `-myparam'
> 
>   d:\>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
>   -1
> 
> and after the above, I see no Emacs process running, so it exited with
> status -1 after reporting the error.
> 
> Thus, I guess we already fixed this bug.

No further comments within 3 weeks, so I presume this bug was indeed
fixed, and I'm therefore closing it.

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