<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Sometimes after the M-x slime
command, SLIME halt in the *inferior-lisp* buffer while<BR>CLISP server is
already up. Then I must slime-abort-connection and slime-connect
manually.</P>
<P>The cause of halt is #'read encountered a zero-length
slime-swank-port-file<BR>in the slime-read-swank-port function in slime.el.
The content of the port-file<BR>has not been sync to the disk after CLISP
server create the file, but file-exists-p is T.<BR>To avoid this problem,
we can add a file-length-gt-zero-p or sleep-for a while<BR>after the
file-exists-p before the call.</P>
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