Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv misbehavior in Emacs 21

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

From: "Uday S. Reddy" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:49 PM
Subject: [h-e-w] gnuserv misbehavior in Emacs 21


> I am running NT Emacs 21.2 on Windows NT.
>
> I have just noticed a strange behavior of gnuserv under this version.
> With (gnuserv-start) in the .emacs file, the first time you start an
> emacs process, gnuserv starts.  If you now start a second emacs
> process, the gnuserv-start in the .emacs file is supposed to exit
> without doing anything, since there is already a gnuserv process
> running.  But, it does not doing so.  It (or something started by it)
> is running in the background, and using up 100% of the CPU.  If I
> remove gnuserv-start in the init file, everything is normal.
>
> Downloading the latest version of gnuserv didn't help.
>
> I also have an older Emacs version (20.6) sitting on my machine.  When
> I tried it there, this behavior did not happen.  I.E. the second
> invocation of gnuserv-start immediately exited.
>
> Has anybody else noticed this behavior?


No.  Just to be sure, I just started two copies of NTEmacs 21.2 on NT 4
SP6a.  The second copy reported "Server subprocess exited".  Task manager
shows only one copy of gnuserv running and no excessive processor load.  I'm
running a rather old version of gnuserv.

Francis