"Greg J. Badros" <gjb(a)cs.washington.edu&gt; writes: It would be better to just localhost I think. I meant the PID of the XEmacs process that is running the gnuserv, that would be much easier to find out later. Anyway that would be just a minor change from your patch and your GNUSERV_ID is more general. It is probably even better to also allow a name that is just /tmp/gsrvdir???/gsrv for those rare people who only start one gnuserv :-). Thanks for your patch. I'll put something like it in 21.2 (please be patient, I have my own dissertation.tex to finish!) Jan