bug#3128: marked as done (emacsclient 22.3 race condition when launching emacs is required)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #3128,
regarding emacsclient 22.3 race condition when launching emacs is required
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> emacsclient 22.3 race condition when launching emacs is required
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> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:03:44 -0400
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> I have emacs 22.3 installed on 
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> $ uname -a
> Linux void 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 11:57:43 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> No emacs is running:
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> $ ps -e | grep emacs
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> If I invoke emacsclient at this point it does launch emacs but with an unnecessary message on stderr and does not return (as expected since --no-wait was not used):
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> $ echo $ALTERNATE_EDITOR
> /sandbox/bin/emacs
> $ emacsclient foo
> emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
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> The newly launched emacs has a buffer open on foo but not as a server buffer.
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> emacsclient is waiting for a done message from emacs and emacs is acting as though it was launched by emacsclient using the --no-wait option.
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> Thanks.
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> Re: bug#3128: Bug#3128: emacsclient 22.3 race condition when launching emacs is required
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:51:08 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Glenn Morris wrote:
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> > Terence Dineen wrote:
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> >> $ echo $ALTERNATE_EDITOR
> >> /sandbox/bin/emacs
> >> $ emacsclient foo
> >> emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
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> >> The newly launched emacs has a buffer open on foo but not as a server
> >> buffer.
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> >> emacsclient is waiting for a done message from emacs and emacs is acting as
> >> though it was launched by emacsclient using the --no-wait option.
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> > I don't really understand what you are saying the problem is
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> On reflection, I think you're asking for a feature that Emacs 22
> simply does not have, namely the ability for emacsclient to start the
> emacs server if it is not running, then connect to it. It doesn't work
> like that. If it finds the server not running, it simply starts a
> stand-alone emacs like any other alternate editor, and does not try to
> communicate with it on a client/server basis. There is no "race
> condition".
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> As I say, it sounds like Emacs 23 will have the feature you want.
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