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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Auto-slave gnusae?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 06:27:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lh6v6zvt.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fux3g4p2.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:18:49 +1100")


on Sun Feb 07 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>>> Besides, I'm not sure we could reliably detect this situation.
>>
>> Look for a dribble file or something similar?
>
> A dribble file might be an indication...
>
> But anyway, I'm not sure that this is something that should be done.
> I'm often ssh-ing in from somewhere to read news on my home machine,
> and starting a Gnus works just fine, even if one is already running.
> You just ... have to be careful not to let the older one overwrite the
> state created by the new one.

Someone like you (meaning, just you) knows exactly how to do that
because they're familiar with all of the state management Gnus does.  I
think “ordinary users” shouldn't be expected to figure that out.

> But I guess that's what's Gnus slaves do, anyway...  But will the
> "other" running Gnus detect the slave data automatically without doing
> anything?

Only Lars can say!

-- 
-Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-18  0:33 Dave Abrahams
2016-02-06  5:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-07 15:57   ` Dave Abrahams
2016-02-08  5:18     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-08 14:27       ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2016-02-09  4:16         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10 20:53           ` Dave Abrahams
2016-02-08 17:27       ` Andreas Schwab

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