From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: JD Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:02:20 -0700 Message-ID: <1179860540.7512.1.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179860619 17555 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2007 19:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 21:03:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqZdw-0006Dn-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:03:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqZdx-0005qE-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqZdv-0005q9-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqZdt-0005px-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:03:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqZdt-0005pu-33 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:03:33 -0400 Original-Received: from nsa.as.arizona.edu ([128.196.210.37]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqZdo-0000F0-M6; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from nsa14.srv.as.arizona.edu (lilytomlininternal.srv.as.arizona.edu [10.100.0.1]) by nsa.as.arizona.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4MJ3PtB022560; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:03:25 -0700 Original-Received: from biff.as.arizona.edu (biff.as.arizona.edu [128.196.211.142]) by nsa.as.arizona.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4MJ30SS016094; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:03:00 -0700 Original-Received: from turtle.as.arizona.edu (turtle.as.arizona.edu [128.196.208.207]) by biff.as.arizona.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4MJ2x2R009646; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:02:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 10.100.6.1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 10.100.14.1 X-so-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-so-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-so-MailScanner-SpamCheck: so14: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 7.2, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-so-MailScanner-From: jdsmith@as.arizona.edu X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71626 Archived-At: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:52 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with > running processes? It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the > prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them > and exit anyway?"). Any suggested workaround? > > Why is it vital to run sentinels when you are killing Emacs anyway? In my case, because the sentinel is writing out a comint input history log, which you'd like to preserve even if the shell isn't cleanly exited.