From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Functions in kill-emacs-hook aren't run if emacs gets killed with SIGTERM
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:19 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901232033.n0NKXJ3p017121@rodan.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u63k5vo4n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:06:00 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
> > Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:58:03 +0100
> >
> > Init or start-stop-daemon do that.
> >
> > > Why can't they use SIGUSRn?
> >
> > Because SIGUSRn has different meanings across applications, so the only
> > reliable way to terminate a program is "kill <pid>" which send a
> > SIGTERM.
>
> You can run your own script when the machine is shut down, can't you?
> Then have that script deliver a SIGUSRn signal to Emacs and wait a few
> moments for it to shut down peacefully.
IMHO we should not teach users to even do that.
The safest thing to do is run
emacsclient --eval "(save-buffers-kill-emacs)".
Relying on things getting saved properly on SIGTERM/SIGUSR* is just not a good
idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-21 8:06 Functions in kill-emacs-hook aren't run if emacs gets killed with SIGTERM Tassilo Horn
2009-01-21 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-21 19:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-21 20:35 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-22 9:03 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-21 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-22 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-22 9:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-22 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-23 2:15 ` mail
2009-01-23 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-22 10:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-01-22 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-23 1:52 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-22 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-22 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-22 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-23 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-23 15:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-23 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-23 19:56 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-01-23 22:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-23 23:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-23 23:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-24 9:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-24 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-24 12:34 ` Miles Bader
2009-01-24 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-23 20:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-01-23 22:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-24 4:40 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-24 6:11 ` Miles Bader
2009-01-23 1:52 ` Richard M Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-23 19:01 grischka
2009-01-23 22:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-24 14:16 ` grischka
2009-01-24 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-24 17:56 ` grischka
2009-01-24 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-24 19:11 ` grischka
2009-01-24 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-24 20:28 ` grischka
2009-01-24 20:32 Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-02 20:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-02-02 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-03 10:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-02-05 3:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-24 20:39 Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 17:28 grischka
2009-02-05 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-05 13:31 ` grischka
2009-02-05 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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