Re: 23.0.60; Emacs should survive a lost X connection

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

  >     No, the emacs server keeps track of the number of emacsclients that are
  >     still connected, when that number is > 0 and you are doing C-x C-c it
  >     will warn that emacsclients are still connected 
  >     (see server-kill-emacs-query-function)
  > 
  >     In the case described here, there are no emacsclients that are still
  >     connected (they have died when X has died, or have been killed with
  >     xkill), but the server thinks otherwise.
  > 
  > Losing connection with the X server
  > has nothing to do with emacsclient.
  > You can't assume that an emacsclient process is dead
  > just because of losing contact with an X server.
  > You can't even assume this if they are on the same machine.

In this particular case emacsclient is dead.