From 44954c2f94bf24ed1eaece22da665c088109efa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:00:54 +0000
Subject: (server-running-p): New function.

---
 lisp/server.el | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lisp/server.el')

diff --git a/lisp/server.el b/lisp/server.el
index 5c44986bb2c..f22d693ffaa 100644
--- a/lisp/server.el
+++ b/lisp/server.el
@@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ message."
     (server-log (format "server-handle-suspend-tty, terminal %s" terminal) proc)
     (condition-case err
 	(server-send-string proc "-suspend \n")
-      (file-error (ignore-errors (server-delete-client proc))))))
+      (file-error                       ;The pipe/socket was closed.
+       (ignore-errors (server-delete-client proc))))))
 
 (defun server-unquote-arg (arg)
   "Remove &-quotation from ARG.
@@ -526,6 +527,21 @@ kill any existing server communications subprocess."
 			" " (int-to-string (emacs-pid))
 			"\n" auth-key)))))))))
 
+(defun server-running-p (&optional name)
+  "Test whether server NAME is running."
+  (interactive
+   (list (if current-prefix-arg
+	     (read-string "Server name: " nil nil server-name))))
+  (unless name (setq name server-name))
+  (condition-case nil
+      (progn
+	(delete-process
+	 (make-network-process
+	  :name "server-client-test" :family 'local :server nil :noquery t
+	  :service (expand-file-name name server-socket-dir)))
+	t)
+    (file-error nil)))
+
 ;;;###autoload
 (define-minor-mode server-mode
   "Toggle Server mode.
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