bug#23202: 24.5; emacsclient confusing server connection message

[Live System User]

When invoking `(server-start)' within ~/.emacs, Emacs corrrectly starts
up the server and creates the server file:

$ cat ~/.emacs.d/server/server | head -1
127.0.0.1:46791 18238

$ ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep 18238
liveuser 18238  7509  0 Mar31 pts/3    00:00:13 emacs

$  netstat -tulpa | grep 46791
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        0      0 localhost.localdo:46791 0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
18238/emacs         



Now, when invoking emacsclient, I get the following message:

$ emacsclient +12:2 ~/.emacs
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
Waiting for Emacs...


Even though I get this message, apparently. emacsclient does find the
network socket and brings up the "~/.emacs" file in an emacs window.

In Emacs, invoking `(list-processes)' yields:

server          listen  --              --           (network server on local)
server <127.... open    --              --           (network connection to 
127.0.0.1)


.%  *Process List*          166 Process Menu     
  * .emacs                73761 Emacs-Lisp       ~/.emacs
 %  *GNU Emacs*             858 Fundamental      
    *scratch*               191 Lisp Interaction 
 %* *Messages*             2285 Messages         


So why give a warning message of "can't find socket" if the connection is
subsequentially successful (the server *was* started) and it gets its
connection information from the server file, even though the server file
is not an actual "socket"?

Could it be that invoking emacsclient, by default, first looks for the
server socket file in /tmp/emacs<UID>/server ?  And then falls back to
the ~/.emacs.d/server/server server file if that socket doesn't
exists?

But because of the default precedence. it doesn't determine whether a
server actually doesn't exists before emitting the warning?

Thanks.



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.7)
 of 2016-02-03 on buildhw-05.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11799901
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Auto-saving...
M-s e is undefined
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gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: Error in the pull function.

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