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Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv misbehavior in Emacs 21
From: |
Dr Francis J. Wright |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv misbehavior in Emacs 21 |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:52:56 +0100 |
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