Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> was heard to say:
I can confirm that Emacs does not honor server-auth-dir. I did not customize this variable or alter it otherwise. Its value is "~/.emacs.d/server/" which is apparently a hard-coded default. However, my server file is in "/tmp/emacs45021/", not in "~/.emacs.d/server/". If I quit Emacs and create "~/.emacs.d/server/" (which did not exist on my system), Emacs still does not use this directory when I start it again.
Thanks for chiming in. I went back to the sources (lisp/server.el) and found out that Emacs does what it is told there. The directory specified in "server-auth-dir" is honored only if the server is supposed to use TCP sockets instead of local sockets. Local sockets end up in /tmp/emacsXY/ which is what I observe here. In order to use TCP sockets, you have to set "server-use-tcp" to a non-nil value. However, attempting to start the server throws me into the debugger if I do that. I'll leave that to the OP as I don't use TCP sockets.
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