bug#1298: allow 'emacsclient -a "emacs --daemon && emacsclient -c"'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:22:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
> Cc: 
> 
> --- emacsclient.c.~1.140.~    2008-11-03 06:30:13.000000000 -0800
> +++ emacsclient.c     2008-11-18 00:13:29.000000000 -0800
> @@ -630,8 +630,13 @@ fail (void)
>    if (alternate_editor)
>      {
>        int i = optind - 1;
> +      char * new_argv[] = { "sh", "-c", 0, 0 };
>  
> -      execvp (alternate_editor, main_argv + i);
> +      new_argv[0] = "sh";
> +      new_argv[1] = "-c";
> +      new_argv[2] = alternate_editor;
> +
> +      execve ("/bin/sh", new_argv, environ);
>        message (TRUE, "%s: error executing alternate editor \"%s\"\n",
>              progname, alternate_editor);
>      }
> 
> 
> Thoughts?

Won't work on platforms that don't have /bin/sh.