On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:41, djc <newsg@resiak.org> wrote:
But what is the reason for the design decision not to delete the server
authentication file when emacs is killed?
According to the comment in server.el, the risk of the server file not
being "ours" anymore:
;; Delete the associated connection file, if applicable.
;; This is actually problematic: the file may have been overwritten by
;; another Emacs server in the mean time, so it's not ours any more.
;; (and (process-contact proc :server)
;; (eq (process-status proc) 'closed)
;; (ignore-errors (delete-file (process-get proc :server-file))))