Re: Functions in kill-emacs-hook aren't run if emacs gets killed with SIGTERM

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Actually it requires only three lines to get something that seems to
> work quite nicely, at least for demonstration purposes.

> Replace one line in emacs.c:~1315:

> -  signal (SIGTERM, fatal_error_signal);
> +  add_user_signal (SIGTERM, "sigterm");

> and add some lisp to catch the signal (can be put into .emacs, to begin with)

> (define-key special-event-map [sigterm] 'sigterm-handler)
> (defun sigterm-handler () (interactive) (kill-emacs))

> Where kill-emacs will also run the kill-emacs-hooks in a safe way, as intended.

Yes, I think this is the right way to do it.  The only change I'd like
to do is to do the autosaves as before in the signal handler before
passing on the signal through the normal input handling (i.e. before
running kill-emacs-hook).


        Stefan