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Re: master b4f504a0ea: Load desktop without prompting if process is dead


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: master b4f504a0ea: Load desktop without prompting if process is dead
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:28:30 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This assumes that command-line-args resolves symlinks in the Emacs
> program's name?  Or that the 'comm' attribute in process-attributes
> does NOT resolve symlinks?  Because otherwise the above will cause
> false negatives.

It's a heuristic -- I don't think there's any real way to reliably find
other running Emacs processes.  They could be called anything.  But
it'll work in the default case, which is what matters here, I think.

> And on Windows, there's the issue of the ".exe"
> extension, which could be in one, but not the other, I think?

Yes, perhaps that should be adjusted.

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